Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
PLAUTUSHe means well’ is useless unless he does well.
More Plautus Quotes
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Courage is its own reward.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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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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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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A man with courage has every blessing.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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