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I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Plautus

He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
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Dumb Handle Move Ring
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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Anand Thakur
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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Anand Thakur
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
PLAUTUS

Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is much easier to begin than to end.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
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Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS

Desire Expectation Frequent
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
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Anand Thakur

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

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