What did Plautus mean by: It is our human lot, it is heaven’s will, that sorrow follow joy. - Plautus Playwright · Italy Copy
+ Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Best Friend, Friendship, Real Friends, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ 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
+ 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
+ Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Smooth, 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
+ It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Common, Helping, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Firefighter, Occasions, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Contentment, Evil, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user. - William Morris Designer · England
When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover; there’s no rain left in heaven. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face? - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
