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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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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
For what is yours is mine, and mine is yours.
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
He whom the gods love, dies young.
For true it is, good oft befalls us when we least expect it. And true it is, that when we trust in hope, we’re often disappointed.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head.
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
He carries a stone in one hand, and offers bread with the other.
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
"He wishes well" is worthless, unless the deed go with it.
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
They call me mad, while they are all mad themselves.
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