Plautus Quotes

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

For as much as to understand and to be mighty are great qualities, the higher that they be, they are so much the less to be esteemed if goodness also abound not in the possessor.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Virtue only is the true beauty.

Birth is nothing where virtue is not

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Virtue alone is happiness below.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Virtue is the truest nobility.