In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUSWomen 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.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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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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