Ancient Playwright Quotes

Terence

Sophocles

Aristophanes

Aeschylus

Euripides

Menander

Plautus

I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

In Latin: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

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

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

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

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

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

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