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Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus

Wine, Wrestler, Cunning

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Good things soon find a purchaser.

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Good Things, Purchasers

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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

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Return, Hard, Ifs

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The evil that we know is best.

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Evil, Knows

Titus Maccius Plautus (1767). “The comedies of Plautus, tr. into familiar blank verse, by B. Thornton”, p.7

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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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Lying, Hot

Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1772). “Comedies of Plautus: Menaechmi. Epidicus. Mostellaria. Pseudolus”, p.237

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A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

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Ego, Gold, Goodness

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 326-29, Poenulus, I. 2. 90, 1922.

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Badly gotten, badly spent.
[Lat., Male partum, male disperit.]

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Males, Possession

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The sea is certainly common to all.

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Sea, Ships, Common

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Modesty should accompany youth.

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Modesty, Youth, Should

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Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

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Valentines Day, Love Is, Spices

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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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Ears, Way, Tongue

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A mouse relies not solely on one hole.

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Holes, Mice, Rely

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

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Men

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It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage.
[Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit.
Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]

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Courage, Men, Clients

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It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.

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Men, Helping, Common

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If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.

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Hands, Suffering, Fists

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 762-63, Truculentus, IV. 2. 54, 1922.

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He who would eat the kernel, must crack the shell.
[Lat., Qui e nuce nucleum esse vult, frangat nucem.]

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Cracks, Shells, Kernel

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He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors.
[Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]

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Conquest, Conqueror

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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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Men, Enemy, Doe

Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The Comedies of Plautus”, p.277

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

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Success, Hands, Hopeful

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Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

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Ornaments, Soil, Filth

"Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, I. 3. 133, 1866.

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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

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Shame, Lost

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 702, Bacchides, III. 3. 80, 1922.

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

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Forgiveness, Love Is, Forgiving

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It is well for one to know more than he says.

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Knowledge, Understanding, Wells

"Epidicus". Play by Plautus, I. 1. 60,

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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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Life, Hungry, Faith In Love

"Complete Works of Plautus".

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Died: 184 BC
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