Plautus Quotes

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

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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

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You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.

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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.
[Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st
Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.
Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,
Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]

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

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For true it is, good oft befalls us when we least expect it. And true it is, that when we trust in hope, we're often disappointed.

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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.

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I love truth, and wish to have it always spoken to me : I hate a liar.

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If you are but content, you have enough to live upon with comfort.

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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.
[Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]

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Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything. It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing.

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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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

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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

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Things we hope not for oftener come to pass than things we wish for.

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

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

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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience.

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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.

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

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The chap that endures hard knocks like a man enjoys a soft time later on.

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He whom the gods protect: the youth is dying whilst he is in health, and has his senses and his judgment sound.

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Fish and guests in three days are stale.

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