I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
More Plautus Quotes
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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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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No blessing lasts forever.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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