You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think … - Plautus

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You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost. (translator Thornton)

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Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC – 184 BC), born at Sarsina, Emilia-Romagna, was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic. The years of his life are uncertain, but his plays were first produced between about 205 BC and 184 BC.

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Native Name: T. Maccius Plautus

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A word to the wise is enough.

Non optuma haec sunt neque ut ego aequom censeo : verum meliora sunt quam quae deterruma.

Dictum sapienti sat est.

You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost. (tran… - Plautus

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