Plautus Quotes

Your wealth is where your friends are.

You must spend money to make money.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

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

The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.

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

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.

Persevere in virtue and diligence.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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

No man is wise enough by himself.

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

No blessing lasts forever.