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

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

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

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

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

That least pleases us which is most urged on us.

Plautus
Please

Modesty should accompany youth.

Plautus
Modesty, Youth, Should

He who tries to protect himself from deception is often cheated, even when most on his guard.

Plautus
Deception, Trying, Protect

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there. [Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]

Plautus
Blow, Ego, Easy

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Plautus
Trying, Doe, Favors

Modesty becomes a young man. [Lat., Adolescentem verecundum esse decet.]

Plautus
Men, Modesty, Young

He is a friend indeed who proves himself a friend in need.

Plautus
Friendship, Needs, Friend In Need
Titus Maccius Plautus, Richard Warner (1772). “Comedies of Plautus: Menaechmi. Epidicus. Mostellaria. Pseudolus”, p.115

What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.

Plautus
Marriage, Mines
Titus Maccius Plautus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Plautus (Illustrated)”, p.1307, Delphi Classics

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