I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUSNo one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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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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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Ones oldest friend is the best.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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