It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUSThe gods play games with men as balls.
More Plautus Quotes
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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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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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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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