Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUSIf you speak insults you will hear them also.
More Plautus Quotes
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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You will stir up the hornets.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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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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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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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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