It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUSHe means well’ is useless unless he does well.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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A word to the wise is sufficient
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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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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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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All men love themselves.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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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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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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