Plautus Quotes

It is much easier to begin than to end.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

A man with courage has every blessing.

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.

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

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

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

Man proposes, God disposes.

How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!

He can do most who has most power.

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.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Worthy things happen to the worthy.

A woman without paint is like food without salt.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

Your wealth is where your friends are

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Conquered, we conquer.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

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

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

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

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

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

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

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

A word to the wise is sufficient

No blessing lasts forever.

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