If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUSKnow this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
More Plautus Quotes
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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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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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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