It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
PLAUTUSI much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
More Plautus Quotes
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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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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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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