What did Plautus mean by: If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. - Plautus Playwright · Italy Copy
+ No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Fortune, Perpetual, 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
+ 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
+ No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Relative, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Envy, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Advice, Wise, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Bells, Dumb, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Ethics, Favour, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
Always remember that the true meaning of Budo is that soft overcomes hard, small overcomes large. - Mas Oyama Martial artist · South Korea
I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability. - Jeremy Bonderman Professional baseball player · USA
Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone. - William of Conches Philosopher · France
To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. - William Penn Founder of the Province of Pennsylvania · England
Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Happiness is the feeling that power increases – that resistance is being overcome. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it. – What does not destroy makes me stronger. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
