To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUSWhen you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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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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No man is wise enough by himself.
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All men love themselves.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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Courage is its own reward.
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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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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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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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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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