In everything the middle road is best.

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

Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

Paint Salt Woman
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
PLAUTUS

Bury Genius Greatness Often
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Fast Known Trouble
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
PLAUTUS

Fast Feast Future
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
The stronger always succeeds.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No blessing lasts forever.
PLAUTUS

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

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

Anand Thakur
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
PLAUTUS

Love Myself Talk Truth
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
PLAUTUS

Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom

More Plautus Quotes