What did Plautus mean by: It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries. Plautus Playwright · Italy Copy
He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another’s expense. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Experience, Learning, Wisdom, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Goodness, Wisdom, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.] Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Fortune, Human nature, Impermanence, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. [Lat., Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius.] Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Annoyance, Friendship, Punctuality, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Forgetting, Memory, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others? Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Accountability, Empathy, Reflection, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Appreciation, Loss, Reflection, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Consequences, Saving, Wealth, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Woe to he who checkmates his opponents at last, only to discover they have been playing cribbage. Jedediah Berry Author
Hardly any animal can look as deeply disappointed as a dog to whom one says “no.” Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Psychoanalyst
