I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUSIn everything the middle road is best.
More Plautus Quotes
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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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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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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You drown him by your talk.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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