Top 180 Plautus Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Practice yourself what you preach.”

— Plautus

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2. “Man proposes, God disposes.”

— Plautus

3. “You must spend money to make money.”

— Plautus

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4. “A word to the wise is sufficient.”

— Plautus

5. “Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”

— Plautus

6. “Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.”

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

8. “Courage in danger is half the battle.”

— Plautus

9. “No man is wise enough by himself.”

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

11. “One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays – Seeing is believing all the world over.”

— Plautus

12. “Courage is its own reward.”

— Plautus

13. “Your wealth is where your friends are.”

— Plautus

14. “Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.”

— Plautus

15. “A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.”

— Plautus

16. “Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.”

— Plautus

17. “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.”

— Plautus

18. “Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.”

— Plautus

19. “That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.”

— Plautus

20. “He whom the Gods love dies young.”

— Plautus

21. “Where there are friends there is wealth.”

— Plautus

22. “What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.”

— Plautus

23. “A woman without paint is like food without salt.”

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

25. “One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.”

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

27. “Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.”

— Plautus

28. “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.”

— Plautus

29. “Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.”

— Plautus

30. “Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!”

— Plautus

31. “Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.”

— Plautus

32. “He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another’s expense.”

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

34. “Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.”

— Plautus

35. “Man is no man, but a wolf.”

— Plautus

36. “Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.”

— Plautus

37. “To love is human, it is also human to forgive.”

— Plautus

38. “The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.”

— Plautus

39. “If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.”

— Plautus

40. “It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.”

— Plautus

41. “That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.”

— Plautus

42. “Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.”

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

44. “I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.”

— Plautus

45. “It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.”

— Plautus

46. “Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.”

— Plautus

47. “You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.”

— Plautus

48. “In everything the middle road is best.”

— Plautus

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

— Plautus

50. “The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.”

— Plautus