A Quote by Plautus

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

Plautus

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Gods Goods Keep Provide Wise

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Plautus
Roman - Playwright
254 BC - 184 BC

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

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