Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
PLAUTUSIt is much easier to begin than to end.
More Plautus Quotes
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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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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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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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 wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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