Plautus Quotes

You drown him by your talk.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.

In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.

He whom the Gods love dies young.

Where there are friends there is wealth.