Top 180 Plautus Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.”

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152. “What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things – either to lose your loan or lose your friend.”

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

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154. “If I can only keep my good name, I shall have riches enough.”

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155. “It is difficult to whistle and drink at the same time.”

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

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157. “Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.”

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158. “He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.”

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159. “The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.”

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160. “He who dies for virtue does not perish.”

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161. “Modesty should accompany youth.”

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162. “Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.”

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163. “I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.”

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164. “The evil that we know is best.”

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165. “The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.”

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166. “He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.”

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167. “Always bring money along with your complaints.”

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168. “Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.”

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169. “Every one can remember that which has interested himself.”

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170. “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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171. “I suspect that hunger was my mother.”

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172. “Riches, rightly used, breed delight.”

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173. “Enemies carry a report in form different from the original.”

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174. “Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.”

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175. “We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.”

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176. “It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.”

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

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178. “That least pleases us which is most urged on us.”

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179. “You drown him by your talk.”

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180. “The stronger always succeeds.”

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181. “Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.”

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

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183. “If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.”

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184. “That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.”

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