Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUSWe are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
More Plautus Quotes
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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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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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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