I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUSIf you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
More Plautus Quotes
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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 snatch the worm from the trap.
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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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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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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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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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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The stronger always succeeds.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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