It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUSTo waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
More Plautus Quotes
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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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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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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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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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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All men love themselves.
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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