I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
PLAUTUSLaws are subordinate to custom.
More Plautus Quotes
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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The stronger always succeeds.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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The evil that we know is best.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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