It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
More Plautus Quotes
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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