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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 everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands.
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.
To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.
He speaks to a dead man (i.e. wastes words).
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all.
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.
Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged—the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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