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

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

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

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

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

In everything the middle course is best:
all things in excess bring trouble to men.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Best

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

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: Insults, Slander

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

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

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

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

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

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

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Kindness

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)

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Forgiveness

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

‘He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
—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

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

If you want to do something, do it!
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)

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

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 regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Shame

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: Help, Aid, Assistance

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Friends and Friendship

Courage is its own reward.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Courage

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

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.
—Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Topics: Patience