Never speak ill of an absent friend.
PLAUTUSIt is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
More Plautus Quotes
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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The stronger always succeeds.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Courage is its own reward.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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