Plautus

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Plautus
Collection: Friendship
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
- Plautus
Collection: Veterans
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
- Plautus
Collection: Beauty
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Collection: Health
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
- Plautus
Collection: Patience
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
Collection: Birthday
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A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
- Plautus
Collection: Wisdom
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
- Plautus
Collection: Wisdom
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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
- Plautus
Collection: Friendship
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
- Plautus
Collection: Courage
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Conquered, we conquer.
- Plautus
Collection: War
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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
- Plautus
Collection: Money
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Let deeds match words.
- Plautus
Collection: Wisdom
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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
- Plautus
Collection: Wisdom
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
- Plautus
Collection: Courage
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You must spend money to make money.
- Plautus
Collection: Money
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
- Plautus
Collection: Courage
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
- Plautus
Collection: Sheep
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How great in number are the little minded men
- Plautus
Collection: Men
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
- Plautus
Collection: Kindness
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
- Plautus
Collection: Winning
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Collection: Done
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Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Collection: Perseverance
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
- Plautus
Collection: Life
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One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
- Plautus
Collection: Eye
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
- Plautus
Collection: Mud
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
- Plautus
Collection: Men
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
- Plautus
Collection: Insults You
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
- Plautus
Collection: Desire
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
- Plautus
Collection: Delight
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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
- Plautus
Collection: Men
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
- Plautus
Collection: Income
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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.
- Plautus
Collection: Brother
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
- Plautus
Collection: Cheerful
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
- Plautus
Collection: Abuse
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
- Plautus
Collection: Unexpected
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
- Plautus
Collection: Men
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A man with courage has every blessing.
- Plautus
Collection: Blessing
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
- Plautus
Collection: Mind
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I've seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
- Plautus
Collection: Men
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
- Plautus
Collection: Criticism
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
- Plautus
Collection: Home
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
- Plautus
Collection: Taken
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
- Plautus
Collection: Law
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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Collection: Traps
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To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Collection: Pumps
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Collection: Hounds
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Collection: Knows
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
- Plautus
Collection: Return