In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
PLAUTUSHe gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
More Plautus Quotes
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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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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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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