I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUSI esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
More Plautus Quotes
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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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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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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