The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
PLAUTUSThe gods play games with men as balls.
More Plautus Quotes
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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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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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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I am myself my own commander.
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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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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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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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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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