If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUSThat man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
More Plautus Quotes
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The evil that we know is best.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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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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If you want to do something, do it!
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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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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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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