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• I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won'
  when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination....
• Look you, I am the most concerned in my own interests.
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act iv, Sc. 1, 12, (636.)...
• There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Heautontimoroumenos, Act iv, Sc. 6, 1, (805.)...
• It is up with you; all is over; you are ruined. -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act i, Sc. 1, 9, (54.)
• If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
  -- Plautus (254-184 BC) -- Rudens, Act iv, Sc. 7, 3, (1229...
• How many things, both just and unjust, are sanctioned by custom!
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Heautontimoroumenos, Act iv, Sc. 7, 11, (839.)...
• It behooves a prudent person to make trial of everything before arms.
  -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act iv, Sc. 7, 19, (789.)...
• Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.
  -- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) -- The Family of Love, Act iv, Sc. 3...
• Jupiter, now assuredly is the time when I could readily consent to be slain, -- Terence (185-159 BC) -- Act iii, Sc.
  5, 2, (550.)...