294 Quotes by Plautus

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Laws are subordinate to custom.

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.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

The gods play games with men as balls.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

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

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