Your wealth is where your friends are.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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Anand Thakur
A word to the wise is sufficient
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Sufficient Wisdom Word
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS

Man Relative Respect
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
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.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Man proposes, God disposes.
PLAUTUS

God Man Propose
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Football God Mortal
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
The gods play games with men as balls.
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Ball Game God Man Play
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Anand Thakur

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