Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUSCourage in danger is half the battle.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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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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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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No 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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Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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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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Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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No man is wise enough by himself.
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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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