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.
PLAUTUSHe means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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The evil that we know is best.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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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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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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