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Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
PlautusPlautus Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
PlautusPlautus There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PlautusPlautus For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
PlautusPlautus You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PlautusPlautus Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
PlautusPlautus It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PlautusPlautus Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
PlautusPlautus Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
PlautusPlautus Wine is a cunning wrestler.
PlautusPlautus A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
PlautusPlautus He who dies for virtue does not perish.
PlautusPlautus Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PlautusPlautus Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PlautusPlautus Never speak ill of an absent friend.
PlautusPlautus Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
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