It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUSBecause those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
More Plautus Quotes
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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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 woman without paint is like food without salt.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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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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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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