Quotes from Titus Maccius Plautus

He whom the Gods love dies young.

No man is wise enough by himself.

GRU. O riddle for the executioner [4], as I guess it will turn out; they'll be so pinking you with goads, as you carry your gibbet [5] along the streets one day, as soon as ever the old gentleman returns here.

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days.

No blessing lasts forever

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Not by age but by character is wisdom acquired.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.

To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

I am always afraid of your something shall be done.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

The evil that we know is best.