Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) (Roman Comic Playwright)

Plautus (c.250–184 BCE) was a great Roman comic dramatist. His works, such as Rudens, loosely adapted from Greek New Comedy, established a truly Roman drama in the Latin language.

Born in Sarsina, Umbria, he probably went to Rome while still young and learned his mastery of the most idiomatic Latin. He found work in connection with the stage and then started a business in foreign trade. However, it failed, and he returned to Rome in such poverty that he had to work for a baker, turning a hand mill.

Plautus borrowed his plots mainly from the New Attic Comedy, which dealt with a social life to exclude politics. His plays show close familiarity with seafaring life and adventure and intimate knowledge of all the details of buying and selling and bookkeeping.

About 130 plays were attributed to him in the time of the grammarian Aulus Gellius, who believed most of them to be the work of earlier dramatists revised and improved by Plautus. Scholar Marcus Terentius Varro limited the genuine comedies to 21, and these so-called ‘Varronian comedies’ are now extant, the Vidularia (‘The Rucksack Play’) being fragmentary.

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Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Slander, Insults

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friendship, Heaven

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Flying

If you are but content you have enough to live upon with comfort.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Contentment

The day, water, sun, moon, night—I do not have to purchase these things with money.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Money

That man is wise to some purpose who gains his wisdom at the expense and from the experience of another.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Experience

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Talent

Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Remembrance

It is easy to rule over the good.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Government

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Evil, Courage, Bravery

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Courage, Difficulty

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Alcohol, Alcoholism

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Assistance, Aid, Help

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Difficulty, One liners, Patience

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friendship

No man is wise enough by himself.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Wisdom, Friendship

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Guilt

No blessing lasts forever
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Blessings

If you lend a person money it becomes lost for any purposes of your own.—When you ask for it back again, you find a friend made an enemy by your own kindness.—If you begin to press still further, either you must part with what you have lent or else you must lose your friend.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

Where there are friends there is wealth.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Wealth

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Courage

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Fortune, Character

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Reality, Loss

Ones oldest friend is the best.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friends and Friendship

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Courage

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: One liners, Guilt

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friendship, Wisdom, Friends, Advice

Your wealth is where your friends are.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Failures, Friendship, Mistakes

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Value

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