You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUSThere are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
More Plautus Quotes
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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The evil that we know is best.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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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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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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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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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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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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