Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
PLAUTUSNo man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
More Plautus Quotes
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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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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Courage in danger is half the battle.
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The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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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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Let deeds match words.
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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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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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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