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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUS

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
Man proposes, God disposes.
PLAUTUS

God Man Propose
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See Yourself
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
PLAUTUS

Exception Expectation Result Rule
It is best to know the worst at once.
PLAUTUS

Best Oneself Worst
A man with courage has every blessing.
PLAUTUS

Blessing Courage Inspirational Man
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
PLAUTUS

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

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
PLAUTUS

Fast Feast Future
Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
PLAUTUS

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

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

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
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Anand Thakur

Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.

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