I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
PLAUTUSTo snatch the worm from the trap.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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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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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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