You will not be a chip the richer.
PLAUTUSTo a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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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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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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I am myself my own commander.
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A man with courage has every blessing.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Courage is its own reward.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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