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The gods play games with men as balls.
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Ball Game God Man Play
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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Anand Thakur
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
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Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Desire Fast Known Trouble
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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Anand Thakur
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Anand Thakur
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
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Lost Man Regard Shame
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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Anand Thakur
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
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Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
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Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
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
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Anand Thakur
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
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Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Anand Thakur
You will not be a chip the richer.
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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
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Insult Talk Willing Yourself
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Anand Thakur

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

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