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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.

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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Conquered, we conquer.
PLAUTUS

Conquer One Liner
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
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
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
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
PLAUTUS

Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
No man has perpetual good fortune.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS

Desire Expectation Frequent
It is easy to rule over the good.
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Easy Goodness Rule
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Balance Mindset Remedy
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See Yourself

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.

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