Plautus Quotes

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.