No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUSI much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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