Plautus
74 quotes
Biography
Titus Maccius Plautus was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety.
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
"The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless."
"Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?"
"[V]irtus praemium est optimum ; virtus omnibus remus anteit profecto : libertas salus vita res et parentes, patria et prognati tutantur, servantur : virtus omnia in sese habet, omnia adsunt bona quem penest virtus."
"Vincite virtute vera."
"Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem."
"Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum."
"Nihil agit, qui diffidentem verbis solatus suis. Is est amicus, qui in re dubia te juvat, ubi re est opus."
"You are seeking a knot in a bulrush."
"Feliciter is sapit, qui alieno periculo sapit."
"Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium divorti potest, quin, ubi triduum continuum fuerit, jam odiosis siet."
"Bibite ! pergraecamini ! Este ! effercite vos !"
"Ego verum amo, verum vol mihi dici : mendacem odi."
"Insperata accidunt magis saepe quam que speres."
"Nihil est miserius, quam animus hominis conscius."
"Each man reaps on his own farm."
"To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy."
"Te de aliis, quam alios de te suavius est fieri doctos."
"Dictum sapienti sat est."
"Male partum, male disperit."
"Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali."
"Nam multa praeter spem, scio, multis bona evenisse. At ego etiam qui speraverint, spem decepisse multos."
"Animus aequus optimus est aerumnae condimentum."
"[S}i sapias, sapias : habeus quod di dant boni."