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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Anand Thakur
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.
PLAUTUSIt is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUSHe who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUSYou have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUSWhen you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUSHe who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
PLAUTUSYou love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUSDisgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUSNothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
PLAUTUSKnow this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
PLAUTUSNo blessing lasts forever.
PLAUTUSLove has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUSIt is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUSYou little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUSIt is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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