No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUSIn everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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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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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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The evil that we know is best.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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