Plautus Quotes

Plautus Biography
Type: Playwright
Nationality: Roman
Born: 254 BC
Died: 184 BC

Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 BC – 184 BC), commonly known as "Plautus", was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period. His comedies are the earliest surviving intact works in Latin literature. He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by the innovator of Latin literature, Livius Andronicus. The word Plautine is used to refer to Plautus's works or works similar to or influenced by his.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
Plautus

Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
Plautus

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
Plautus

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
Plautus

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
Plautus

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
Plautus

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.
Plautus