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The evil that we know is best.
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Anand Thakur
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Anand Thakur
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUS

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
PLAUTUS

Believe Eyes See World
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Man is no man, but a wolf.
PLAUTUS

Animal Man Wolf
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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Anand Thakur
Where there are friends there is wealth.
PLAUTUS

Friendship Wealth
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Manner Mud Vulgar
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
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Deserve Worth
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How great in number are the little minded men.
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Greatness Man Mindset Number
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Your wealth is where your friends are.
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Anand Thakur

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

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