294 Quotes by Plautus

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things – either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

Your wealth is where your friends are.

Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another’s expense.

It is well for one to know more than he says.

It is our human lot, it is heaven’s will, that sorrow follow joy.

No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

It wasn’t for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

Man is no man, but a wolf.