How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUSThe man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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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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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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I am myself my own commander.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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A man with courage has every blessing.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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