In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUSNo 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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A man with courage has every blessing.
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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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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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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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Let deeds correspond with words.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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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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To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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