Plautus Quotes

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

A word to the wise is sufficient

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Flight without feathers is not easy.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

You must spend money to make money.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

The evil that we know is best.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Let deeds match words.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

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

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Conquered, we conquer.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.