294 Quotes by Plautus

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.