It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUSIt is difficult to fly without wings.
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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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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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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All men love themselves.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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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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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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You drown him by your talk.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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