In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUSIt is easy to rule over the good.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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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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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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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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