If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUSA mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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