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• The gods play games with men as pieces. -- Titus Maccius Plautus (254?-184 B.C.)
• If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
  -- Plautus (254-184 BC) -- Rudens, Act iv, Sc. 7, 3, (1229...
• No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
  -- Titus Maccius Plautus (254?-184 B.C.)...
• Practice yourself what you preach. -- Titus Maccius Plautus (254?-184 B.C.)
• In the one hand he is carrying a stone, while he shows the bread in the other.
  -- Plautus (254-184 BC) -- Aulularia, Act ii, Sc. 2, 18, (195.)...
• It was not for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
  -- Plautus (254-184 BC) -- Aulularia, Act iv, Sc. 3, 1, (624.)...
• A very riband in the cap of youth. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iv, Sc. 7
• Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
  -- Plautus (254-184 BC) -- Truculentus, Act iv, Sc. 4, 15, (868.)...
• What comes from this quarter, set it down as so much gain.
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Adelphoe, Act v, Sc. 3, 30, (816.)...