What did Plautus mean by: Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire. Plautus Playwright · Italy Copy
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Consequences, Resistance, Suffering, 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
Let deeds correspond with words. [Lat., Dictis facta suppetant.] Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Accountability, Communication, Integrity, 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
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Fate, Love, Risk, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Consequences, Regret, Warning, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not. Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Knowledge, Mystery, Perception, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.] Author, December 23, 2023January 1, 2025, Plautus, Modesty, Virtue, Youth, 0 Plautus Playwright · Italy
To make a man richer, give him more money or curb his desires. Read explanation Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Each of us needs something – food, liquor, pot, whatever – to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. Frank Langella Film actor
Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness. Fyodor Dostoevsky Writer · Russia
If the desires are not controlled now, later they will control you. Mata Amritanandamayi Spiritual leader and humanitarian · India
