Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
PLAUTUSYou drown him by your talk.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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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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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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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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