The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
PLAUTUSBadly gotten, badly spent.
PLAUTUSIt is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUSThat man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
PLAUTUSThat wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
PLAUTUSIn grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
PLAUTUSNo one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUSDisgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUSHe who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUSHe who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUSIf anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUSIt is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
PLAUTUSIt is difficult to fly without wings.
PLAUTUSGood things soon find a purchaser.
PLAUTUSA well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
PLAUTUSThere’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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