Plautus
Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus, commonly known as 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 the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine /ˈplɔːtaɪn/ refers to both Plautus's own works and works similar to or influenced by his...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPlaywright
strength stronger succeed
The stronger always succeeds.
hands suffering fists
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
water digging thirst
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
men kind wealth
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
wine wrestler cunning
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
moderation middle
In everything the middle road is best.
eating morrow dies
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
god men propose
Man proposes, God disposes.
eye gossip witness
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
perseverance worthy happens
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
sports age aging
Not every age is fit for childish sports.
pain men littles
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
men guilt shame
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
men blessing lost
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.