Plautus Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.”

“Laws are subordinate to custom.”

“No blessing lasts forever.”

“He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.”

“It well becomes a young man to be modest.”

“No man is wise enough by himself.”

“He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.”

“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.”