He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUSWithout feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
More Plautus Quotes
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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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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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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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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You drown him by your talk.
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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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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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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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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Practice yourself what you preach.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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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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The stronger always succeeds.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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