Plautus Quotes

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• One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
• 'He means well' is useless unless he does well.
• Worthy things happen to the worthy.
• Not every age is fit for childish sports.
• Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please…
• That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
• I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
• Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
• There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
• Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.
• It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
• It is easy to rule over the good.
• Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
• To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
• I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
• He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.
• What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
• Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
• Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
• Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

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