He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUSHe who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
More Plautus Quotes
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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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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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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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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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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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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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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All men love themselves.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
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