Great Throughts Treasury

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Laberius, full name Decimus Laberius NULL

Roman Knight and Writer of Mimes and Farces

"That danger which is despised arrives the soonest."

"What is an oath? A plaster for a debt."

"A small sum makes a debtor, a larger sum an enemy."

"As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you."

"To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty."

"From his silence a man's consent is inferred."

"Hard cases make bad law."

"The more honesty a man has the less he affects the air of a saint."

"He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence."

"No man ought to be twice tried for the same offence."

"What a man does by the agency of another is his own act."

"As you behave towards others, expect that others will behave to you."

"Hasty counsels are generally followed by repentance."

"[Caesar] He must fear many, whom many fear."