Ifs Quotes by Plautus

If you want to do something, do it!

— Plautus

If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

— Plautus

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

— Plautus

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus…

— Plautus

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness.…

— Plautus

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no…

— Plautus

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce…

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]

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If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue,…

— Plautus

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy…

— Plautus