There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
PLAUTUSThings unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
More Plautus Quotes
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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You drown him by your talk.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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