Plautus Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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

  Evil, Done, Bitter

• Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
  [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

  Plautus

  Evil, Minimum

• He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

  Plautus

  Evil, Rewards, Endure

• This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
  [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est,
  Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

  Plautus

  Wine, Feet, Evil

• The evil that we know is best.

  Plautus

  Evil, Knows

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1767). “The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton”, p.7

• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

  Plautus

  Courage, Evil, Overcoming

• Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
  [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

  Plautus

  Evil, Contentment, Known

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