A Quote by Plautus

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Plautus

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Give Gods Man Profit Some Whom

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Plautus
Roman - Playwright
254 BC - 184 BC

He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

Plautus

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

Ovid

Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

Plautus

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

Plautus

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

Horace

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

Catullus

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand. [Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.]

Ovid

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He is not poor who has the use of necessary things. [Lat., Pauper enim non est cui rerum suppetet usus.]

Horace

Man should ever look to his last day, and no one should be called happy before his funeral. [Lat., Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini est, dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo et suprema funera debet.]

Ovid

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

Plautus

Dare to do something worth of exile and prison if you mean to be anybody. Virtue is praised and left to freeze. [Lat., Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris et carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquis. Probitas laudatur et alget.]