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Ones oldest friend is the best.

Plautus

If you speak insults you will hear them also.
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Insult Talk Willing Yourself
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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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
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Anand Thakur
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Anand Thakur
To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

One Liner Trap Worm
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.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You will stir up the hornets.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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Anand Thakur
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
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Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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Anand Thakur
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
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Anand Thakur
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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Day Friendship Guest Welcome
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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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
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Anand Thakur
It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
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Anand Thakur
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
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Anand Thakur
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Anand Thakur
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
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Anand Thakur
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Anand Thakur

Ones oldest friend is the best.

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