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Wise Quotes by Plautus

4 Wise quotes by Plautus

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If you want to do something, do it!

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

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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

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A word to the wise is sufficient

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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

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I suspect that hunger was my mother.

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He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

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He who dies for virtue does not perish.

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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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If you speak insults you will hear them also.

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

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What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you…

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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

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“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)”

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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 judicem.]

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