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
insults-you insult speak
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
jest turns earnest
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
eating morrow
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.
thinking immortal disgrace
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
men common helping
It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.
learning life-is thorough
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
smell perfume wells
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
heaven joy sorrow
It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.
doe virtue dies
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
girl wise women
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
women perfume
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
daughter women delay
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
contentment enough ifs
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
friends oldest-friends
Ones oldest friend is the best.