Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUSIt is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
More Plautus Quotes
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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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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.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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The evil that we know is best.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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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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