To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUSThat man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
More Plautus Quotes
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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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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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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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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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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