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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He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Dying, Death

‘He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

The great evil of wine is that it first seizes the feet, it is a crafty wrestler.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Wine

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

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

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Gossip

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

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

Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Warfare, Courage, Danger, Bravery

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: Aid, Help, Assistance

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Discipline, Self-Control

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

If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Contentment

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

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)

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

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

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Blessings, Goals, Aspirations

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

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

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

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

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: One liners

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Hope

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

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

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

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

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

Laws are subordinate to custom.
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Custom

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