The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
PLAUTUSHe who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
More Plautus Quotes
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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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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No blessing lasts forever.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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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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You will stir up the hornets.
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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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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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