Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
PLAUTUSMan proposes, God disposes.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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I am myself my own commander.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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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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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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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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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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