Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
PLAUTUSFeast today makes fast tomorrow.
More Plautus Quotes
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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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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You will not be a chip the richer.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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