It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUSIt is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
More Plautus Quotes
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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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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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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