How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
PLAUTUSThat wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
More Plautus Quotes
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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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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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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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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