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
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.
PLAUTUSI am myself my own commander.
PLAUTUSA word to the wise is sufficient
PLAUTUSIf you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUSIt is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUSIn misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
PLAUTUSYou have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUSThere is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PLAUTUSTo waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUSMan’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUSHow bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
PLAUTUSHe gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUSIt is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUSNothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PLAUTUSMan proposes, God disposes.
PLAUTUSNo one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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