I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUSWine is a cunning wrestler.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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All men love themselves.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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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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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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