If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUSGood merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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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 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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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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It is much easier to begin than to end.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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