| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 8671 |
| AUTHOR: | Publius Syrus (42 B.C.) |
| QUOTATION: | In every enterprise consider where you would come out. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Maxim 777. |
| | Note 1. In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.Epictetus: That everything is to be undertaken with circumspection, chap. xv. [back] |
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