The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You drown him by your talk.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Where there are friends there is wealth.
PLAUTUS

Friendship Wealth
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUS

Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUS

Best Journey Road Travel
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS

Man Relative Respect
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
PLAUTUS

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
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.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
PLAUTUS

Deserve Worth
It is much easier to begin than to end.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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