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If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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Anand Thakur
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
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Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
PLAUTUS

Difficult Fly Wings
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUS

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS

Love Yourself
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.
PLAUTUS

Character Fortune Jewel Myself
The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
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Manner Mud Vulgar
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
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
Man proposes, God disposes.
PLAUTUS

God Man Propose
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
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Anand Thakur

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.

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