It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUSIt is difficult to fly without wings.
More Plautus Quotes
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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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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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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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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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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