Man is no man, but a wolf.
PLAUTUSLet not your expenditure exceed your income.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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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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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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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 who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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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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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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