Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUSHe means well’ is useless unless he does well.
More Plautus Quotes
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No 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.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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