Quotes By Plautus

Laws are subordinate to custom.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

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

Conquered, we conquer.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

How great in number are the little minded men.

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

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

A word to the wise is enough.

The evil that we know is best.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

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

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

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

No blessing lasts forever.

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

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

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.