A word to the wise is sufficient
PLAUTUSI have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
More Plautus Quotes
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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The evil that we know is best.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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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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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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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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