Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUSLet deeds match words.
More Plautus Quotes
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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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 things soon find a purchaser.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Let deeds match words.
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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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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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