Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUSMen understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
More Plautus Quotes
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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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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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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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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