How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
PLAUTUSThat man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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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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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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