Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
PLAUTUSIf you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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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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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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