No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUSA mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
More Plautus Quotes
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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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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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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