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title: "10 Knows Quotes By Plautus"
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> [Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/know-this-that-troubles-come-swifter-than-the-things-we-desire/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/that-which-you-know-know-not-and-that-which-you-see-see-not/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/little-do-you-know-what-a-gloriously-uncertain-thing-law-is/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [It is best to know the worst at once.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/it-is-best-to-know-the-worst-at-once/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/that-man-is-worthless-who-knows-how-to-receive-a-favor-but-not-how-to/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [ Know not what you know, and see not what you see. \[Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris; Ne videris quod videris.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/know-not-what-you-know-and-see-not-what-you-see-lat-etiam-illud-quod/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/for-i-know-that-many-good-things-have-happened-to-many-when-least/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. \[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/you-little-know-what-a-ticklish-thing-it-is-to-go-to-law-lat-nescis/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/one-eye-witness-is-of-more-weight-than-ten-hearsays-those-who-hear/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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> [I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/i-know-that-we-women-are-all-justly-accounted-praters-they-say-in-the/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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## Other authors on Knows

## More by Plautus

> [Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/remind-a-man-of-what-he-remembers-and-you-will-make-him-forget-it/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/arrogance-is-the-outgrowth-of-prosperity/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [I suspect that hunger was my mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/i-suspect-that-hunger-was-my-mother/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/he-is-happy-in-his-wisdom-who-has-learned-at-another-s-expense/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [He who dies for virtue does not perish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/he-who-dies-for-virtue-does-not-perish/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/the-man-who-would-be-fully-employed-should-procure-a-ship-or-a-woman/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [If you speak insults you will hear them also.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/if-you-speak-insults-you-will-hear-them-also/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [ No man has perpetual good fortune. \[Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/no-man-has-perpetual-good-fortune-lat-nulli-est-homini-perpetuum-bonum/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/what-you-lend-is-lost-when-you-ask-for-it-back-you-may-find-a-friend/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/things-unhoped-for-happen-oftener-than-things-we-desire/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/ut-saepe-summa-ingenia-in-occulto-latent-how-often-the-greatest/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [ You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. \[Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/you-little-know-what-a-ticklish-thing-it-is-to-go-to-law-lat-nescis/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [Modesty should accompany youth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/modesty-should-accompany-youth/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/it-is-wisdom-to-think-upon-anything-before-we-execute-it/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

> [A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/a-woman-smells-well-when-she-smells-of-nothing/)

[Plautus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/plautus/)

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