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254 BC–184 BC
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC – 184 BC), born at Sarsina, Emilia-Romagna, was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC.
Also known as: Truculentus
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In fine, there's no moderation in women, nor do we understand how ever to set a limit to washing and scrubbing.
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows bread with the other.
If you are but content, you have enough to live upon with comfort.
That expression, "He means well," is useless unless he does well.
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
In one hand he bears a stone, with the other offers bread.
Patience, then, is the best remedy against affliction.
Woman certainly is the offspring of tardiness itself.
He who seeks profit must first make an expenditure.
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
You should not speak ill of an absent friend.
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
The valiant profit more
The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. He’s a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience.
When a man reaches the last stage of life,—without senses or mentality—they say that he has grown a child again.
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