Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
PLAUTUSA man with courage has every blessing.
More Plautus Quotes
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Courage is its own reward.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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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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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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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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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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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.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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The evil that we know is best.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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