Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUSI am myself my own commander.
More Plautus Quotes
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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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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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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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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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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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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