It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUSHe means well’ is useless unless he does well.
More Plautus Quotes
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Courage is its own reward.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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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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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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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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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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