He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUSKnow this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
More Plautus Quotes
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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It is much easier to begin than to end.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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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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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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