It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Courage is its own reward.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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