Plautus Men Quotations

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

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.

How great in number are the little minded men

Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

No man is wise enough by himself.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.

Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

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

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu; Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.

Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.

A man with courage has every blessing.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.

The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

Man is no man, but a wolf

The gods play games with men as balls

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

Man proposes, God disposes.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

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.

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

All men love themselves.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.