Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
PLAUTUSMen understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
More Plautus Quotes
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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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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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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