I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUSIf you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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A man with courage has every blessing.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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All men love themselves.
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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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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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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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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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