Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUSBadly gotten, badly spent.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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If you want to do something, do it!
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You will stir up the hornets.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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I am myself my own commander.
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