No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUSA woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
More Plautus Quotes
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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It is much easier to begin than to end.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Courage is its own reward.
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I am myself my own commander.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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