Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUSEvery one can remember that which has interested himself.
More Plautus Quotes
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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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.
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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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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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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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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In everything the middle road is best.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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