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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
— Plautus
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Plautus
comedy writer, playwright, writer
– 2003
Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature. The word Plautine refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his.
He influenced some of the greatest figures in literature, including Shakespeare and Molière.
All Quotes by Plautus
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.
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You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.
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The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.
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I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!
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I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.
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It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor. (translated by Thornton)
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You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.
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Each man reaps on his own farm.
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To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.
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The valiant profit moreTheir country, than the finest cleverest speakers.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
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