We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS

Man Relative Respect
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
PLAUTUS

Hands Injustice Simplicity

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