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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!

Plautus

Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
The evil that we know is best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!

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