Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUSNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
More Plautus Quotes
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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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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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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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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