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.
PLAUTUSFor I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
More Plautus Quotes
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You drown him by your talk.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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