There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUSTo 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.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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Courage is its own reward.
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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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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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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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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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