Plautus Quotes

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

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.

You will stir up the hornets.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

I am myself my own commander.

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