In everything the middle road is best.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
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Anand Thakur
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
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Condition Health Himself
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
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Anand Thakur
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
Laws are subordinate to custom.
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Anand Thakur
Courage is its own reward.
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Courage One Liner Reward
Fire is next akin to smoke.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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Lost Man Regard Shame
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
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Business Master Yourself
It is best to know the worst at once.
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Best Oneself Worst
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
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Beginning Easy End Start
Man is no man, but a wolf.
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Animal Man Wolf
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Anand Thakur

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