What did Plautus mean by: Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope. - Plautus Playwright · Italy Copy
+ 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
+ Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Aviation, Flying, Wings, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Art, Poverty, Thorough, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ I have lost my oil and my labor. (Labored in vain.) [Lat., Oleum et operam perdidi.] Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Lost, Oil, Vain, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Believe, Eye, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ It is our human lot, it is heaven’s will, that sorrow follow joy. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Heaven, Joy, Sorrow, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Family, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Enemy, Husband, Wife, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
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