If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUSNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
More Plautus Quotes
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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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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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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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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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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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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