It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PLAUTUSIf you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
More Plautus Quotes
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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