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For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

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Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
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Anand Thakur
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
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Anand Thakur
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
PLAUTUS

Certain Lost Unknown
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
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
PLAUTUS

Known Man Oneself Return Worth
A word to the wise is sufficient
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Sufficient Wisdom Word
Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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Labour Lose Word
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
PLAUTUS

Hands Injustice Simplicity
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
It is easy to rule over the good.
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Easy Goodness Rule
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The stronger always succeeds.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Complaint Money Yourself
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
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Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Animal Man Wolf
It is much easier to begin than to end.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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Anand Thakur

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

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