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.
PLAUTUSLaws are subordinate to custom.
More Plautus Quotes
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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All men love themselves.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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The stronger always succeeds.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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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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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Let deeds match words.
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