Quote

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

Plautus

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Plautus
Actor
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Titus Maccius Plautus
Done
Good
Mali
Reap
Harvest
Bitter
Evil

More quotes by Plautus

Image
The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
Plautus
Image
Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
Plautus
Image
Always bring money along with your complaints.
Plautus
Image
In everything the middle road is best.
Plautus
Image
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
Plautus
Image
It is well for one to know more than he says.
Plautus
Image
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
Plautus
Image
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Plautus
Image
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus
Image
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
Plautus
Image
That which you know, know not and that which you see, see not.
Plautus
Image
He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
Plautus
Image
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
Plautus
Image
This is the great fault of wine it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
Image
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
Plautus
Image
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
Plautus
Image
It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]
Plautus
Image
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Plautus
Image
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
Plautus
Image
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
Plautus