294 Quotes by Plautus

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts. [Lat., Paupertas . . . omnes artes perdocet.]

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

You must spend money to make money.

No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

Man is no man, but a wolf

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.