Fortitude is a great help in distress.
PLAUTUSHow often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
More Plautus Quotes
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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The evil that we know is best.
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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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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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It is much easier to begin than to end.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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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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