Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUSI love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
More Plautus Quotes
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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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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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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