Plautus Quotes

No blessing lasts forever.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

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

If you want to do something, do it!

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is much easier to begin than to end.

He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.

No man is wise enough by himself.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

No man has perpetual good fortune.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Your wealth is where your friends are.