Plautus Quotes - Page 2

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• Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

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  Income, Expenditures, Exceed

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• It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

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  Blessing, Appreciate, Lost

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• The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

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  Business, Men, Venture

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• Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?

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  Abuse, Looks, Calumny

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• No man is wise enough by himself.

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  Wise, Teamwork, Wisdom

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Miles Gloriosus, III. 3. 12, 1922.

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• That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

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  Men, Favors, Return

  "Persa". V, 1, 10,

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• Where there are friends there is wealth.

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  Friendship, Relationship, Real Friends

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• How great in number are the little minded men

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  Men, Numbers, Littles

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• It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

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  Wisdom, Thinking

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• Let deeds match words.

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  Deeds

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• Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

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  Delight, Riches, Used

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• He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.

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  Casts, Precipice, Ifs

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• It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

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  Kindness, Men, Purpose

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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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  God

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• The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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• Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
  [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris,
  Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]

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  Eating, Morrow, Dies

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• Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

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  Wise, Men, Advice

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• No man has perpetual good fortune.
  [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]

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  Men, Fortune, Perpetual

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• Laws are subordinate to custom.

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  Law, Subordinates, Customs

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• A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.

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  Mind, Affliction, Wells

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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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  Friendship, Travel, House

  "Miles Gloriosus". Play by Titus Maccius Plautus, Act III, scene 1, line 146,

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• In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
  [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
  Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

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  Men, Excess, Trouble

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• Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

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  Desire, Trouble, Knows

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• It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
  [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

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  Beauty, Men, Handsome

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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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  Love, Death, Judging

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