Convention is the ruler of all.

When men succeed, even their neighbors think them wise.
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Anand Thakur
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
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Anand Thakur
Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.
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Noble Silence
Time is the best preserver of righteous men.
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Anand Thakur
He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Anand Thakur
Words have a longer life than deeds.
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Anand Thakur
The noblest of the elements is water.
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Anand Thakur
If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.
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Anand Thakur
Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.
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Anand Thakur
A good deed hidden in silence dies.
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Anand Thakur
Creatures of a day, what is any one? What is he not? Man is but a dream of a shadow. Yet when there comes as a gift of heaven a gleam of sunshine, there rest upon men a radiant light and, aye, a gentle life.
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Anand Thakur
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death.
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Anand Thakur
With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Anand Thakur
Men are the dreams of a shadow.
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Anand Thakur
There are many roads to happiness, if the gods assent.
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God Happiness Road
Learn what you are and be such.
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Anand Thakur

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