Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Gift Place Smooth Word
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Anand Thakur
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Anand Thakur
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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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
In everything the middle road is best.
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Best Journey Road Travel
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
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Anand Thakur
It is easy to rule over the good.
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Easy Goodness Rule
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
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Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
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
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
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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Anand Thakur
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Anand Thakur
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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