If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
PLAUTUSLet us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
More Plautus Quotes
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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