Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
PLAUTUSThere is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
More Plautus Quotes
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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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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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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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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