Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
PLAUTUSThings unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
More Plautus Quotes
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Conquered, we conquer.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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It is much easier to begin than to end.
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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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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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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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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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