Plautus Quotes

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

Bury Genius Greatness Often
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS

Day Friendship Guest Welcome
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS

Love Yourself
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUS

Beginning Easy End Start
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See Yourself
To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

One Liner Trap Worm
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS

Man Relative Respect
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUS

Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

Paint Salt Woman
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
PLAUTUS

Life Mouse Oneself Trust
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUS

Best Journey Road Travel
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
PLAUTUS

Certain Lost Unknown
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
PLAUTUS

Celebration Sweet Wine Word
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
PLAUTUS

Love Myself Talk Truth
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
PLAUTUS

Blame Home Mistake Point
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Hope
How great in number are the little minded men.
PLAUTUS

Greatness Man Mindset Number
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
PLAUTUS

Labour Lose Word
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
PLAUTUS

Balance Mindset Remedy
Let deeds correspond with words.
PLAUTUS

Action Match One Liner Word
Where there are friends there is wealth.
PLAUTUS

Friendship Wealth

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