What did Plautus mean by: I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] - Plautus Playwright · Italy Copy
+ Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Learn, Thorough, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Modesty, Youth, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Casts, Precipice, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Overcoming, Rejoice, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Endure, Shame, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Advice, Good Advice, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Grief, Meals, Stores, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Compliment, Criticism, Sincere, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history. - William Howard Adams Historian · USA
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. - Jean-Marie Le Pen Politician · France
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I still feel the same way about God’s Word as I did when I was 15 and lost my sight. - Jennifer Rothschild Speaker/Author/Bible Teacher
We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging. - Jeremy Clarkson Television presenter · England
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