Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
PLAUTUSTo snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUSNo 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.
PLAUTUSThe day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUSThere are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUSNo blessing lasts forever.
PLAUTUSIf you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
PLAUTUSIt is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
PLAUTUSIt is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUSFor I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
PLAUTUSVulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUSYou have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUSHe who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUSDisgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUSHe who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUSNothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
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