It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUSMan’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
More Plautus Quotes
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Let deeds match words.
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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All men love themselves.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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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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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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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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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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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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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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