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.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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
Conquered, we conquer.
PLAUTUS

Conquer One Liner
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
PLAUTUS

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
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
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
PLAUTUS

Labour Lose Word
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How great in number are the little minded men.
PLAUTUS

Greatness Man Mindset Number
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
PLAUTUS

Love Myself Talk Truth
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man has perpetual good fortune.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Hope

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