He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
PLAUTUSMen understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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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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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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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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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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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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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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