It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
PLAUTUSOne eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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Man is no man, but a wolf.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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You will not be a chip the richer.
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Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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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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When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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If you want to do something, do it!
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I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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Let deeds match words.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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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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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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