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title: "10 Rich Quotes By Plautus"
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> [You must spend money, if you wish to make money.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/you-must-spend-money-if-you-wish-to-make-money/)

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

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> [Always bring money along with your complaints.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/always-bring-money-along-with-your-complaints/)

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

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> [I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/i-trust-no-rich-man-who-is-officiously-kind-to-a-poor-man/)

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

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> [Let not your expenditure exceed your income.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/let-not-your-expenditure-exceed-your-income/)

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

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> [You will not be a chip the richer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/you-will-not-be-a-chip-the-richer/)

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

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> [“After all, what is money apart from what it can buy?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/after-all-what-is-money-apart-from-what-it-can-buy/)

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

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> [It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/it-is-not-without-a-purpose-when-a-rich-man-greets-a-poor-one-with/)

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

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> [The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/the-poor-man-who-enters-into-a-partnership-with-one-who-is-rich-makes/)

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

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> [He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/he-who-has-in-due-season-become-rich-unless-he-saves-in-due-season/)

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

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> [ If you spend a thing you can not have it. \[Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/plautus/if-you-spend-a-thing-you-can-not-have-it-lat-non-tibi-illud-apparere/)

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

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## Other authors on Rich

## 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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