The evil that we know is best.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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No blessing lasts forever.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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