The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
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Anand Thakur
The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.
MENANDERThere is but one genuine love potion – consideration.
MENANDERIt must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
MENANDERFortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature’s way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.
MENANDERHow sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
MENANDERNever ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
MENANDERMarriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.
MENANDERIt is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.
MENANDERAll men have one refuge, a good friend, with whom you can weep and know that he does not smile.
MENANDERSilence is often advantageous.
MENANDERHe who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDERAt times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.
MENANDERThe good man makes others good.
MENANDERWe live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
MENANDERIt is as easy to draw back a stone thrown with force from the hand, as to recall a word once spoken.
MENANDERI call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
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