He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUSNothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
More Plautus Quotes
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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