Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
PLAUTUSA word to the wise is sufficient
More Plautus Quotes
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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Let deeds match words.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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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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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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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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