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Laws are subordinate to custom.

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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Anand Thakur
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Love Myself Talk Truth
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
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Easy Finding Sick
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.
PLAUTUS

Hands Injustice Simplicity
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Animal Man Wolf
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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Known Man Oneself Return Worth
Let deeds match words.
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Action One Liner Word
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Good things soon find a purchaser.
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Anand Thakur
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Anand Thakur
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Anand Thakur
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Anand Thakur
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
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Anand Thakur
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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Anand Thakur
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Manner Mud Vulgar
Ones oldest friend is the best.
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Anand Thakur
Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Friendship Wealth
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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Anand Thakur
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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Anand Thakur
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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Anand Thakur

Laws are subordinate to custom.

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