Quotes by Plautus

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

“Your wealth is where your friends are.”

“What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.”

“If you want to do something do it!”

“I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.”

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

“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.”

“All men love themselves.”

“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.”

“Courage is what preserves our liberty safety life and our homes and parents our country and children. Courage comprises all things.”

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

“What is thine is mine and all mine is thine.”

“If you want to do something do it!”

“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.”