If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUSIt is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
More Plautus Quotes
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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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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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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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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