Where there are friends there is wealth.

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
PLAUTUS

Exception Expectation Result Rule
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUS

Manner Mud Vulgar
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
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
PLAUTUS

Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
PLAUTUS

Love Myself Talk Truth
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUS

Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
Man proposes, God disposes.
PLAUTUS

God Man Propose
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
PLAUTUS

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

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

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion

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