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It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Plautus

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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Anand Thakur
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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Anand Thakur
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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Desire Hope
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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Anand Thakur
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Anand Thakur
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Desire Fast Known Trouble
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Anand Thakur
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Love Myself Talk Truth
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
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Anand Thakur
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference

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