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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

Plautus

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Anand Thakur
It is much easier to begin than to end.
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Anand Thakur
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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Anand Thakur
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
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Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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Anand Thakur
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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Anand Thakur
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
The gods play games with men as balls.
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Ball Game God Man Play
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Day Friendship Guest Welcome
In everything the middle road is best.
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Best Journey Road Travel
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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Day Willing Yourself
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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Anand Thakur
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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Anand Thakur
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
A man with courage has every blessing.
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Blessing Courage Inspirational Man
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Anand Thakur
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Anand Thakur
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Anand Thakur
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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Anand Thakur
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Anand Thakur

Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.

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