To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Forgiveness
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Discipline, Self-Control
Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Flying
In everything the middle course is best:
all things in excess bring trouble to men.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Best
If you are but content you have enough to live upon with comfort.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Contentment
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Guilt, One liners
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Difficulty, Courage
Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Guilt
What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friendship
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Gossip
Ones oldest friend is the best.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friends and Friendship
No blessing lasts forever.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Blessings
Courage is its own reward.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Courage
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Guilt
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Courage
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Hope
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Wisdom
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Blessings, Goals, Aspirations
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Alcoholism, Alcohol
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Contentment
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Value
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: One liners
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Business
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Remembrance
No man is wise enough by himself.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friendship, Wisdom
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)
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Perseverance, Resolve, Endurance
Laws are subordinate to custom.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Custom
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 day, water, sun, moon, night—I do not have to purchase these things with money.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Money
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Ennius Roman Poet
- Terence Roman Comic Dramatist
- Cornelius Nepos Roman Historian
- Cato the Elder (Marcus Porcius Cato) Roman Statesman
- Pliny the Younger Roman Senator, Writer
- Virgil Roman Poet
- Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Roman Stoic Philosopher
- Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Roman Poet
- Quintilian Roman Rhetorician, Literary Critic
- Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) Scottish Poet
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