Plautus

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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
- Plautus
Collection: Rich
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Man is no man, but a wolf
- Plautus
Collection: Animal
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'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
- Plautus
Collection: Mean
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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Collection: Men
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
- Plautus
Collection: Money
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
- Plautus
Collection: Remembrance
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No blessing lasts forever.
- Plautus
Collection: Blessing
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
- Plautus
Collection: Contentment
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In everything the middle road is best.
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Collection: Moderation
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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Collection: Wise
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Never speak ill of an absent friend.
- Plautus
Collection: Friends
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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Collection: Worst
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A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
- Plautus
Collection: Smell
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- Homines qui gestant
Collection: Si Meo Arbitratu Liceat
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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Collection: Women
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Collection: Learning
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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Collection: Life
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
- Plautus
Collection: Simple
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If you want to do something, do it!
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Collection: Motivational
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.
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Collection: House
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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Collection: Girl
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Collection: Character
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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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Collection: Motivational
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
- Plautus
Collection: Speech
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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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Collection: Hope
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Collection: Failure
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Courage is its own reward.
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Collection: Courage
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Collection: Greek
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Collection: Too Late
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Collection: Wings
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Collection: Nuts
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Collection: Luck
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The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
- Plautus
Collection: Moving
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When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
- Plautus
Collection: Fire
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You drown him by your talk.
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Collection: Speech
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
- Plautus
Collection: Wisdom