If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
PLAUTUSNothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
More Plautus Quotes
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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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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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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