It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUSThere’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
More Plautus Quotes
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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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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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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