Quotes from Plautus

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

You must spend money to make money.

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. ("Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.")

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

He means well" is useless unless he does well.

Ones oldest friend is the best.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

Conquered, we conquer.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Man proposes, God disposes.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

Man is no man, but a wolf

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.