It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
PLAUTUSIt is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
More Plautus Quotes
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Every one can remember that which has interested 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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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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The evil that we know is best.
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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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