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Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Betwixt the devil and the deep sea.
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Between two stools one sits on the ground.
[Fr., S'asseoir entre deux selles le cul a terre.]
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.
[Lat., Devine, si tu peux, et choisis, si tu l'oses.]
Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of
goods.
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of
goods.
We make our choices, then our choices make us!
We make our choices, then our choices make us!
Between the victim and the stone knife.
[Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
Between the victim and the stone knife.
[Lat., Inter sacrum et sazim.]
If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
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If it be aught toward the general good,
Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other,
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death.
