294 Quotes by Plautus

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils. [Lat., E malis multis, malum, quod minimum est, id minimum est malum.]

It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

It is easy to rule over the good.

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake. [Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem. Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.