Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
PLAUTUSMan proposes, God disposes.
More Plautus Quotes
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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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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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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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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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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