He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
PLAUTUSIt is much easier to begin than to end.
More Plautus Quotes
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If you want to do something, do it!
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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The stronger always succeeds.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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