Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
PLAUTUSFor I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
More Plautus Quotes
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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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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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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