Let deeds match words.
PLAUTUSIf you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
More Plautus Quotes
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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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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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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How great in number are the little minded men.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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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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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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A man with courage has every blessing.
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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All men love themselves.
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