Inspirational Quotes by Plautus

I suspect that hunger was my mother.

— Plautus

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

— Plautus

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

— Plautus

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

— Plautus

If you speak insults you will hear them also.

— Plautus

A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

In everything the middle road is best.

— Plautus

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

— Plautus

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

— Plautus

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

— Plautus

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

— Plautus

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

The stronger always succeeds.

— Plautus

If you want to do something, do it!

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

— Plautus

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

— Plautus

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

— Plautus

The sea is certainly common to all.

— Plautus