Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
PLAUTUSNo guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
More Plautus Quotes
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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