Top 270 Quotes & Sayings by Plautus - Page 5

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.

The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

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Flame is very near to smoke.

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Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

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He that's in love, i' faith, even if he is hungry, isn't hungry at all.

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Man is a wolf to man. [Lat., Homo homini lupus.]

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A mouse relies not solely on one hole.

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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.

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

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Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

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We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

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All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.

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Modesty should accompany youth.

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This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

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In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

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That least pleases us which is most urged on us.

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Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.

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Nothing is there more friendly to a man than a friend in need.

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For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

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He whom the Gods love dies young.

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To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

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He can do most who has most power.

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