Men Quotes by Plautus

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

— Plautus

How great in number are the little minded men

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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

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

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Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

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

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

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All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

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

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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little…

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

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For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting;…

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In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum…

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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up…

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

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A man with courage has every blessing.

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The gods play games with men as balls

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Man proposes, God disposes.

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All men love themselves.

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Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

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

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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

— Plautus

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

— Plautus

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

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Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

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In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

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Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have…

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

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

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

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