If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
PLAUTUSHe means well’ is useless unless he does well.
More Plautus Quotes
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If you want to do something, do it!
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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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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A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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