There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUSIf you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
More Plautus Quotes
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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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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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Courage is its own reward.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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