The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUSLet us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
More Plautus Quotes
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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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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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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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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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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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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The evil that we know is best.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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I am myself my own commander.
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A man with courage has every blessing.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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