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34 Quotes for 'Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)' in the Database.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves
it it is dumb.
[Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum;
Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]
Topic: Bells
Source: Trinummus (IV, 2, 162)
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You will stir up the hornets.
[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
Topic: Contention
Source: Amphitruo (act II, 2, 75)
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
[Lat., Hominum immortalis est infamia;
Etiam tum vivit, cum esse credas mortuam.]
Topic: Disgrace
Source: Persa (III, 1, 27)
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
[Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
Topic: Eating
Source: Aulularia
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri
oportet.]
Topic: Faults
Source: Truculentus (I, 2, 58)
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not
how to return one.
[Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et
reddere nescit.]
Topic: Favors
Source: Persa (V, 1, 10)
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Flame is very near to smoke.
[Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]
Topic: Fire
Source: Curculio (act I, 1, 53)
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To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: Mercator (II, 2, 46)
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
[Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]
Topic: Gain
Source: Asinaria (I, 3, 65)
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He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether
with his head.
[Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]
Topic: Growth
Source: Trinummus (IV, 2, 9)
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Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most
abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have
sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow
their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
[Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st
Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.
Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,
Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]
Topic: Growth
Source: Trinummus (IV, r, 128)
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
[Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]
Topic: Guilt
Source: Captivi (III, 5, 24)
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Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of
guilt.
[Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]
Topic: Guilt
Source: Mostellaria (act III, 1, 13)
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an
annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's
house.
[Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest,
Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.]
Topic: Hospitality
Source: Miles Gloriosus (III, 3, 12)
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I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]
Topic: Hunger
Source: Stichus (act II, 1, 1)
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
[Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]
Topic: Ingratitude
Source: Persa (II, 2, 46)
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They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
[Lat., Hei mihi, insanire me ajunt, ultro cum ipsi insaniunt.]
Topic: Insanity
Source: Menoechmi (V, 2, 90)
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
[Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]
Topic: Insult
Source: Pseudolus (act IV, 7, 77)
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to
earnest.
[Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,
Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]
Topic: Jesting
Source: Amphitruo (III, 2, 39)
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What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a
friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him
further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your
loan or lose your friend.
[Lat., Si quis mutuum quid dederit, sit pro proprio perditum;
Cum repetas, inimicum amicum beneficio invenis tuo.
Si mage exigere cupias, duarum rerum exoritur optio;
Vel illud, quod credideris perdas, vel illum amicum, amiseris.]
Topic: Loss
Source: Trinummus (IV, 3, 43)
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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does
well will always have patrons enough.
[Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]
Topic: Merit
Source: Amphitruo--Prologue (LXXVIII)
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Modesty becomes a young man.
[Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]
Topic: Modesty
Source: Asinaria (V, 1, 8)
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He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]
Topic: Necessity
Source: Curculio (I, 1, 55)
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]
Topic: Obscurity
Source: Captivi (I, 2, 62)
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Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
[Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.]
Topic: Rumor
Source: Persa (III, 1, 23)
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
[Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]
Topic: Shame
Source: Bacchides (III, 3, 80)
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For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took
its rise. . . . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does
it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
Topic: Slander
Source: Persa (act III, sc. 1), (Riley's translation)
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Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good
will should all be hanged--the former by their tongues, the
latter by the ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina,
Si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant,
Gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]
Topic: Slander
Source: Pseudolus (I, 5, 12)
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The stronger always succeeds.
[Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.]
Topic: Strength
Source: Truculentus (IV, 3, 30)
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If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]
Topic: Suffering
Source: Truculentus (IV, 2, 54)
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Woe to the vanquished!
[Lat., Vae victis.]
Topic: Victory
Source: Pseudolus (act V)
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is
mastering you.
[Lat., Miserum est opus,
Igitur demum fodere puteum, ubi sitis fauces tedet.]
Topic: Water
Source: Mostellaria (II, 1, 32)
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I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]
Topic: Wealth
Source: Aulularia (II, 2, 30)
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by
it, you have reason to rejoice.
[Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod
gaudias.]
Topic: Will
Source: Trinummus (II, 9)
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