There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PLAUTUSIf anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
More Plautus Quotes
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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The stronger always succeeds.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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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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In everything the middle road is best.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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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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A word to the wise is sufficient
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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