If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
PLAUTUSThere are games in which it is better to lose than win.
More Plautus Quotes
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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