Quotes from Plautus

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

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

You must spend money to make money.

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

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

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

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

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.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.