It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUSIt is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
More Plautus Quotes
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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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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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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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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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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You drown him by your talk.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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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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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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