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Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Plautus

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
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Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
A word to the wise is sufficient
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Sufficient Wisdom Word
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Life Mouse Oneself Trust
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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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
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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Anand Thakur
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
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Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Lost Man Regard Shame
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
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Anand Thakur
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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Blame Home Mistake Point
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.
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Anand Thakur
How great in number are the little minded men.
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Greatness Man Mindset Number
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
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Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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Known See Yourself
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

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