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The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
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We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.
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Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.
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Wisdom is the winner over good luck.
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To eat off another man's plate. [To live an another's expense.]
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Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.
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Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]
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It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
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When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]
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The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.
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No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
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Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]
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The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the thief 's face.
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
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