For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
PLAUTUSI much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
More Plautus Quotes
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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