When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.

To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

One Liner Trap Worm
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS

Love Yourself
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
PLAUTUS

Life Mouse Oneself Trust
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
PLAUTUS

Hands Injustice Simplicity
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
PLAUTUS

Deserve Worth
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Man is no man, but a wolf.
PLAUTUS

Animal Man Wolf
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You will stir up the hornets.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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