Plautus Quotes

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• I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
• The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
• Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
• This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
• If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
• Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
• Conquered, we conquer.
• He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
• Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
• The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight.
• Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
• A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
• For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
• Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
• He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
• It well becomes a young man to be modest.
• Laws are subordinate to custom.
• No blessing lasts forever.
• No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
• There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

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