The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
PLAUTUSIt is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
More Plautus Quotes
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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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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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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