What did Plautus mean by: When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire. - Plautus Playwright · Italy Copy
+ It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Kindness, Purpose, 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
+ It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Digging, Thirst, Water, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another’s expense. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Expenses, Wisdom, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Drinking, Funny, Wine, 0 - Plautus Playwright · Italy
+ It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Plautus, Serious, Treats, 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
+ 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
The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains. - William Morris Designer · England
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. - Gary D. Schmidt Author
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot Author · England
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. - Jean-Paul Aron
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness. - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon Mystic and writer · France
