I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUSThat man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
More Plautus Quotes
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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