Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
PLAUTUSNothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
More Plautus Quotes
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No blessing lasts forever.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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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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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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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 not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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