Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
PLAUTUSTo snatch the worm from the trap.
More Plautus Quotes
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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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 courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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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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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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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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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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