Ancient Playwright Quotes

Terence

Sophocles

Aristophanes

Aeschylus

Euripides

Menander

Plautus

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.