"Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"In everything the middle road is best."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se."
("In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.")
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Let not your expenditure exceed your income."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Practice yourself what you preach."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Let deeds match words."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"No man is wise enough by himself."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"A woman without paint is like food without salt."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"There are games in which it is better to lose than win."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock."
— Plautus (254-184BC)
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
— Plautus (254-184BC)