Plautus Quotes
- Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release…
- To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
- Never speak ill of an absent friend.
- For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
- It is well for one to know more than he says
- He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all.
- Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
- Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
- He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
- Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
- Courage in danger is half the battle.
- Courage is its own reward.
- No man is wise enough by himself.
- Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
- Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- A word to the wise is enough.
- The evil that we know is best.
- We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.