It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUSA well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
More Plautus Quotes
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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All men love themselves.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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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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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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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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