He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUSIt is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
More Plautus Quotes
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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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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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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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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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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The evil that we know is best.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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