Plautus Quotes

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

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

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Labrax: One letter more than a medical man, that's what I am.
Gripus: Then you're a mendicant?
Labrax: You've hit the point.

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The mind is hopeful: success is in God's hands.

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

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According as men thrive, their friends are true ; if their affairs go to wreck, their friends sink with them. Fortune finds friends.

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One eyewitness weighs more than ten hearsays. Seeing is believing, all the world over.

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That expression, "He means well," is useless unless he does well.

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Keep what you've got; the evil that we know is best.

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Whenever a man is quartered at a friend's, if he but stay three days, his company they will grow weary of.

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To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.

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

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But nevertheless reflect, the little mouse, how sage a brute it is! Who never trusts its safety to one hole : for when it finds one entrance is block'd up, it has secure some other outlet.

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Nor do I hold that every kind of gain is always serviceable. Gain, I know, has render'd many great. But there are times when loss should be preferred to gain.

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

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Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!

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

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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

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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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In one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread with the other.

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

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

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