Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUSBadly gotten, badly spent.
More Plautus Quotes
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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