Quotes from Plautus

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.

It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.

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

All men love themselves.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

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

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

He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays.

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

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.