There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUSDo you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Good things soon find a purchaser.
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It is much easier to begin than to end.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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A woman without paint is like food without salt.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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