Top 270 Quotes & Sayings by Plautus - Page 3
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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy as lead.
The stronger always succeeds.
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
Always bring money along with your complaints.
You drown him by your talk.
When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
[Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.
[Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
You will stir up the hornets.
[Lat., Irritabis crabones.]
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
[Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
[Lat., Ego verum amo, verum volo mihi dici; mendacem odi.]
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things - either to lose your loan or lose your friend.
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
The gods play games with men as balls.
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
No man has perpetual good fortune.
[Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
[Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
Food of Acheron. (Grave.)
[Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
[Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
[Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
If you want to do something, do it!
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
[Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.]
[Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.]
Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
Good things soon find a purchaser.
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
How great in number are the little minded men
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