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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
Ones oldest friend is the best.
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Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
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Anand Thakur
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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Anand Thakur
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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Anand Thakur
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
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Learning Life Sufficient
The evil that we know is best.
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Anand Thakur
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
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Anand Thakur
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Anand Thakur
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
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Believe Eyes See World
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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Anand Thakur
Conquered, we conquer.
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Conquer One Liner
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
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Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
In everything the middle road is best.
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Best Journey Road Travel
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
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Anand Thakur
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
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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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
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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Anand Thakur
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Anand Thakur

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.

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