The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
PLAUTUSVulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
More Plautus Quotes
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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It is much easier to begin than to end.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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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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Ones oldest friend is the best.
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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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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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