It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
PLAUTUSHe whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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Courage is its own reward.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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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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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
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Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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