It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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Anand Thakur
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Anand Thakur
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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.
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Anand Thakur
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
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Anand Thakur
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods play games with men as balls.
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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
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Anand Thakur
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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