It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUSA woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
More Plautus Quotes
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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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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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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