Plautus
Born at Sassina, Umbria, was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic.
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!
You are seeking a knot in a bulrush.
Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
I had a regular battle with the dunghill-cock.
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!
In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread with the other.
What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience.
The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing.
One eye-witness weighs more than ten hearsays — Seeing is believing all the world over.
Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit.
The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.
Each man reaps on his own farm.