The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUSThat which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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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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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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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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All men love themselves.
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Laws are subordinate to custom.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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Man proposes, God disposes.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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