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

Plautus

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
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
PLAUTUS

Day Willing Yourself
Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUS

Gift Place Smooth Word
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
PLAUTUS

Difficult Fly Wings
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Fast Known Trouble
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
No 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.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
PLAUTUS

Believe Eyes See World
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
PLAUTUS

Learning Life Sufficient

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

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