Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Laws are subordinate to custom.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Fast Known Trouble
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick

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