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Titus Maccius Plautus
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I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]
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The evil that we know is best.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done! [Lat., Ut acerbum est, pro benefactis quom mali messem metas!]
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In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men. [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]
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We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]
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He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy I cannot at the same time be here and also there. [Lat., Simul flare sorbereque haud facile Est: ego hic esse et illic simul, haud potui.]
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No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.]
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For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
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A woman smells well when she smells of nothing.
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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If you spend a thing you can not have it. [Lat., Non tibi illud apparere si sumas potest.]
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Know not what you know, and see not what you see. [Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris Ne videris quod videris.]
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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Food of Acheron. (Grave.) [Lat., Pabulum Acheruntis.]
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