Plautus Quotes

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

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

If you want to do something do it!

Always bring money along with your complaints.

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

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

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

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

Courage is its own reward.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

I count him lost who is lost to shame.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

All men love themselves.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.