Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame
Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUS

Gift Place Smooth Word
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
PLAUTUS

Known Man Oneself Return Worth
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUS

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A word to the wise is sufficient
PLAUTUS

Sufficient Wisdom Word
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

Paint Salt Woman

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