Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUSIt is easier to begin well than to finish well.
More Plautus Quotes
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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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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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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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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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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You drown him by your talk.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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