Step into the world of Plautus, the ancient Roman playwright, and embrace the enduring humor and wisdom found in his quotes. Explore a treasury of timeless insights, witty observations, and comedic reflections on life, love, and human nature. Let Plautus’ words transcend centuries, inviting laughter and contemplation as they shed light on the eternal facets of the human experience.
Top Quotes of Plautus
- “Courage is its own reward.” – Plautus
- “That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.” – Plautus
- “The evil that we know is best” – Plautus
- “Your wealth is where your friends are” – Plautus
Top Quotes of Plautus
Plautus Quotes about Affairs
Plautus’s Quotes on Blessings
Courage Quotes of Plautus
Quotes of Plautus about Enemies
Evil Quotes of Plautus
Plautus’s Friendship Quotes
Quotes about Guilt and Life by Plautus
Courage is its own reward.
Plautus
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
Plautus
The evil that we know is best
Plautus
Your wealth is where your friends are
Plautus
Plautus Quotes about Affairs
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases.
Plautus
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome
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Courage Quotes of Plautus
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Courage in danger is half the battle
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
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Plautus Quotes on Blessings
A man with courage has every blessing.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
Plautus
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them
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No blessing lasts forever.
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Plautus’s Friendship Quotes
He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
Plautus
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
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What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Quotes of Plautus about Enemies
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.
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For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
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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.
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Evil Quotes of Plautus
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler.
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Quotes about Guilt and Life
All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
Plautus
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.
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He that’s in love, i’ faith, even if he is hungry, isn’t hungry at all
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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