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• One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
  [Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
  Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.]

  Plautus

  Mistake, Eye, Weight

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• No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.

  Plautus

  House, Three, Jam

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• For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

  Plautus

  Hope, Good Things, Disappointed

  "Rudens" by Plautus, II. 3. 69; Mostellaria, Act I, scene 3, line 71, 211 BC.

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• Fortitude is a great help in distress.

  Plautus

  Helping, Fortitude, Distress

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• Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
  [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]

  Plautus

  Evil, Contentment, Known

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• There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

  Plautus

  Failure, Loss, Lost Friendship

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “Comedies: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes”, p.440

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• If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

  Plautus

  Want, Has Beens, Ifs

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

  Plautus

  Girl, Wise, Women

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• This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

  Plautus

  Funny, Drinking, Wine

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• We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
  [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

  Plautus

  Our Words, Pouring, Labor

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• Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

  Plautus

  Motivational, Success, Animal

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1852). “The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley”, p.249

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• Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

  Plautus

  Wings, Flying, Aviation

  "Plautus: The little Carthaginian. Pseudolus. The ro".

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• I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
  [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

  Plautus

  Ego, Shame, Lost

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• Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

  Plautus

  Greek, Gorges, Drink

  "Mostellaria" by Mostellaria, Act I, scene 1, lines 61-62,

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• The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.

  Plautus

  Too Late, Cost, Substance

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1767). “Comedies of Plautus”, p.29

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• It is easy to rule over the good.

  Plautus

  Government, Easy

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• Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.

  Plautus

  Luck, Desire, Happens

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• The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

  Plautus

  Moving, Dumb, Bells

  "Trinummus", IV, 2, 162, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 67-69, 1922.

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• Courage in danger is half the battle.

  Plautus

  Courage, Military, Battle

  "Pseudolus". Play by Plautus, Act I, scene 5, line 37, 191 B.C..

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• Food of Acheron. (Grave.)
  [Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]

  Plautus

  Graves

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• It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

  Plautus

  Hands, Ravens, Justice

  Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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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.]

  Plautus

  Wine, Feet, Evil

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• That least pleases us which is most urged on us.

  Plautus

  Please

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

  Plautus

  Friendship, Men, Friendly

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• I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

  Plautus

  Men, Kind, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Aulularia, II. 2. 30, 1922.

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