It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUSI much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
More Plautus Quotes
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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