If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
PLAUTUSI esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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