Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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Anand Thakur
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
It is best to know the worst at once.
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Best Oneself Worst
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Anand Thakur
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Anand Thakur
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Anand Thakur
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Anand Thakur
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
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Anand Thakur
Your wealth is where your friends are.
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Anand Thakur
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Anand Thakur
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
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Greet. Poor Kindness Man Oneself Purpose Rich
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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Anand Thakur

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