Plautus Quotes

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

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Practice yourself what you preach.

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The face that thou shalt smite in earnest is bound thereafter to be boneless.

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No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

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Our best support and succor in distress is fortitude of mind.

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Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.

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Patience, then, is the best remedy against affliction.

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He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.

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Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

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These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.

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The man that comforts a desponding friend with words alone, does nothing. He's a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

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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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Fish and guests in three days are stale.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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You cannot eat your cake and have it too, unless you think your money is immortal. The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

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The valiant profit more
Their country, than the finest cleverest speakers.

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For him I reckon lost who's lost to shame.

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I say, Libanus, what a poor devil a chap in love is!

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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whatever we do.
In Latin: Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.

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Facts speak for themselves.
In Latin: Res ipsa testit

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Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
In Latin: Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.

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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
In Latin: Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.

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Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

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For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise. The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
In Latin: Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.

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It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.

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It is better to learn from the mistakes of others than that others should learn from you.

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