Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUSCourage easily finds its own eloquence.
More Plautus Quotes
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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