If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUSConsider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
More Plautus Quotes
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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The evil that we know is best.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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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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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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I am myself my own commander.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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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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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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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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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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