He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUSWe are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
More Plautus Quotes
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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