Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
PLAUTUSAh yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Conquered, we conquer.
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I am myself my own commander.
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