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

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUS

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

Day Willing Yourself
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUS

Gift Place Smooth Word
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
PLAUTUS

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUS

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

Paint Salt Woman
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUS

Beginning Easy End Start

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