The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
More Plautus Quotes
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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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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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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You will stir up the hornets.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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