He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
PLAUTUSIn grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
More Plautus Quotes
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All men love themselves.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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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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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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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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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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