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It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

Plautus

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
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Anand Thakur
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
PLAUTUS

Love Myself Talk Truth
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
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
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUS

Best Journey Road Travel
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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Anand Thakur
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
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Labour Lose Word
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
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Anand Thakur
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
PLAUTUS

Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

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