294 Quotes by Plautus

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

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

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]

Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.

You will not be a chip the richer.

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

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

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.