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Titus Maccius Plautus
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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
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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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It is good to love in a moderate degree to distraction, it is not good but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master's doing.
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It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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In everything the middle road is best.
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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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If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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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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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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I am myself my own commander. [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]
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It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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When you fly from temptation, don't leave a forwarding address. Where there's smoke there's fire.
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To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
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This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum luctator dolosu est.]
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He whom the gods love dies young, whilst he is full of health, perception, and judgment. [Lat., Quem dii diligunt, Adolescens moritur, dum valet, sentit, sapit.]
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Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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