It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
PLAUTUSHe who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
More Plautus Quotes
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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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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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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