He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUSIt is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
More Plautus Quotes
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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