Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. Plautus More Quotes by Plautus More Quotes From Plautus I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. Plautus trifles esteem guilt 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. Plautus doe men enemy It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush. Plautus beats speech way The stronger always succeeds. Plautus stronger succeed strength If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. Plautus fists suffering hands Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire. Plautus trouble knows desire The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. Plautus hopeful success hands That least pleases us which is most urged on us. Plautus please He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock. Plautus fate falling-in-love life Courage easily finds its own eloquence. Plautus eloquence courage life You will not be a chip the richer. Plautus chips You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.] Plautus stores meals grief One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers. Plautus gossip witness eye Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold. Plautus weight gold life That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not. Plautus knows Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. Plautus garments mud manners To make any gain some outlay is necessary. Plautus gains To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly. Plautus unjust simple hands We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us. Plautus vex endure shame I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar. Plautus hate truth liars
