For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUSThe Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
More Plautus Quotes
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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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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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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