He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUS

Manner Mud Vulgar
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUS

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
PLAUTUS

Dumb Handle Move Ring
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
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
No man has perpetual good fortune.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
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Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

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

Labour Lose Word
How great in number are the little minded men.
PLAUTUS

Greatness Man Mindset Number

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