If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUSIt is easier to begin well than to finish well.
More Plautus Quotes
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The stronger always succeeds.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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It is easy to rule over the good.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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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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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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