How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUSHow often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUSIn grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
PLAUTUSWorthy things happen to the worthy.
PLAUTUSI have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUSPatience is the best remedy for every trouble.
PLAUTUSNothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PLAUTUSI had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUSA woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUSWhen you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUSIf you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
PLAUTUSEvery man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
PLAUTUSNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
PLAUTUSIt is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
PLAUTUSPractice yourself what you preach.
PLAUTUSNo one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUS