Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUSHe is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
More Plautus Quotes
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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