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
wisdom expenses
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.
family men unwelcome
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
helping fortitude distress
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
rich become-rich dues
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
income exceed expenditures
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
law littles uncertain
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
youth modesty should
Modesty should accompany youth.
men remember forget
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
please
That least pleases us which is most urged on us.
knows
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
husband wife enemy
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
winning games loses
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
simple hands unjust
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
gains
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.