I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

The stronger always succeeds.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
The evil that we know is best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is easy to rule over the good.
PLAUTUS

Easy Goodness Rule
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
It is much easier to begin than to end.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Laws are subordinate to custom.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
PLAUTUS

Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See Yourself

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