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
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.
sadness misery miserable
That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
friendship men friendly
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
easy excellent easier
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
government easy
It is easy to rule over the good.
men honor honest
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
courage eloquence
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
life falling-in-love fate
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.