When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUSA mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
More Plautus Quotes
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No man has perpetual good fortune.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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