No blessing lasts forever.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
More Plautus Quotes
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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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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No man is wise enough by himself.
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In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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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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He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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I am myself my own commander.
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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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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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No 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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Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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