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Plautus


Born at Sassina, Umbria, was a comic playwright in the time of the Roman Republic.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
Plautus
These things are not for the best, nor as I think they ought to be; but still they are better than that which is downright bad.




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You miss the point? The lady that spares her lover spares herself too little.
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It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
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[F]acias ipse quod faciamus nobis suades.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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He whom the gods love dies young.
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To blow and swallow at the same moment is not easy.
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