Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plato

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

All men love themselves.

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

Plautus

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.

Plautus

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

Plautus

The gods play games with men as balls

Plautus

How great in number are the little minded men

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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.

Plautus

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

Plautus

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

Plautus

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.]

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plautus

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

Plato

Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure.

Plato

The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless.