Plautus Quotes and Quotations
Always bring money along with your complaints. It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us. I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. Your wealth is where your friends are. What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors. Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. Courage in danger is half the battle. Courage is its own reward. Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things. Courage easily finds its own eloquence. If you want to do something, do it! It is easier to begin well than to finish well. Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not annoy his host after three days. In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives. All men love themselves. I count him lost, who is lost to shame. It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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