Plautus
arrogance prosperity
"Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
midle road
"In everything the middle road is best."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
wine feet wrestler
"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
middle course excess trouble
"Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se."
("In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.")
— Plautus (254-184BC)
expenditure income
"Let not your expenditure exceed your income."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
day waer sun moon night purchace free
"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
practice preach
"Practice yourself what you preach."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
gods love dies young health sense judgement sound
"He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
age capacity wisdom
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
busy employed procure ship woman trouble
"The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
deeds words
"Let deeds match words."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
man wise himself
"No man is wise enough by himself."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
woman paint food salt cosmetics vanity
"A woman without paint is like food without salt."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
unexpect result rule exception
"Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
celebrate wine sweet words
"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
patience remedy trouble
"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
game lose win
"There are games in which it is better to lose than win."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
unexpected happen frequent wish
"Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
New Clippingfall in love fate leap rock
"He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
heaven friend
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
— Plautus (254-184BC)