One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUSNo 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.
More Plautus Quotes
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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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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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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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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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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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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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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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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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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