Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PLAUTUSBadly gotten, badly spent.
More Plautus Quotes
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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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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No blessing lasts forever.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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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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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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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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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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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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