| 34 Famous Quotes by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
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“If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]”
Suffering Quotes Source: Truculentus (IV, 2, 54)
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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.]”
Growth Quotes 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.]”
Growth Quotes Source: Trinummus (IV, r, 128)
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“The stronger always succeeds.
[Lat., Plus potest qui plus valet.]”
Strength Quotes Source: Truculentus (IV, 3, 30)
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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.]”
Bells Quotes Source: Trinummus (IV, 2, 162)
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“You will stir up the hornets.
[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]”
Contention Quotes Source: Amphitruo (act II, 2, 75)
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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.]”
Jesting Quotes Source: Amphitruo (III, 2, 39)
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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.]”
Wealth Quotes Source: Aulularia (II, 2, 30)
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“He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
[Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]”
Gain Quotes Source: Asinaria (I, 3, 65)
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“Flame is very near to smoke.
[Lat., Flamma fumo est proxima.]”
Fire Quotes Source: Curculio (act I, 1, 53)
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“How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
[Lat., Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent!]”
Obscurity Quotes Source: Captivi (I, 2, 62)
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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.]”
Favors Quotes Source: Persa (V, 1, 10)
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“I suspect that hunger was my mother.
[Lat., Famem fuisse suspicor matrem mihi.]”
Hunger Quotes Source: Stichus (act II, 1, 1)
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“He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]”
Necessity Quotes Source: Curculio (I, 1, 55)
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“You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
[Lat., Nihil amas, cum ingratum amas.]”
Ingratitude Quotes Source: Persa (II, 2, 46)
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“To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
[Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: Mercator (II, 2, 46)
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“I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
[Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]”
Shame Quotes Source: Bacchides (III, 3, 80)
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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.]”
Disgrace Quotes Source: Persa (III, 1, 27)
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“I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
[Lat., Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi aestimo.]”
Guilt Quotes 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.]”
Guilt Quotes Source: Mostellaria (act III, 1, 13)
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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.]”
Faults Quotes Source: Truculentus (I, 2, 58)
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“Modesty becomes a young man.
[Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]”
Modesty Quotes Source: Asinaria (V, 1, 8)
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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.”
Slander Quotes 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.]”
Slander Quotes Source: Pseudolus (I, 5, 12)
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“If you speak insults you will hear them also.
[Lat., Contumelian si dices, audies.]”
Insult Quotes Source: Pseudolus (act IV, 7, 77)
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