Plautus Quotes

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
PLAUTUS

Bury Often
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS

Day Guest
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUS

Easy End
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See
To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

Trap Worm
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Insincere Preference
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Sieve
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy

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