Plautus Quotes
- If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.
- If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
- It is good to love in a moderate degree; but it is not good to love to distraction.
- Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
- It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
- The sea is certainly common to all.
- Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
- The gods play games with men as balls
- Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
- Practice yourself what you preach.
- It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
- That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
- Man proposes, God disposes.
- It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.
- Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
- A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
- It is our human lot, it is heaven's will, that sorrow follow joy.
- He who dies for virtue does not perish.
- As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
- The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.