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

Plautus

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Football God Mortal
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Anand Thakur
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
No blessing lasts forever.
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Anand Thakur
Courage in danger is half the battle.
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Anand Thakur
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
You will stir up the hornets.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
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
It is much easier to begin than to end.
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Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is easy to rule over the good.
PLAUTUS

Easy Goodness Rule
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Anand Thakur
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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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
How great in number are the little minded men.
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Greatness Man Mindset Number
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
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Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Desire Fast Known Trouble
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Love Myself Talk Truth
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
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Anand Thakur
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
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Hands Injustice Simplicity
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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Anand Thakur
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
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Anand Thakur
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Anand Thakur

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

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