Badly gotten, badly spent.
PLAUTUSWithout feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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All men love themselves.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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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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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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The stronger always succeeds.
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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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