In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUSLet deeds correspond with words.
More Plautus Quotes
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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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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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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