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Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.

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

Anand Thakur
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
PLAUTUS

Exception Expectation Result Rule
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
PLAUTUS

Animal Away Wolf
Courage is its own reward.
PLAUTUS

Courage One Liner Reward
No blessing lasts forever.
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
The evil that we know is best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is easy to rule over the good.
PLAUTUS

Easy Goodness Rule
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
PLAUTUS

Blame Home Mistake Point
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
PLAUTUS

Balance Mindset Remedy
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
PLAUTUS

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

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let deeds match words.
PLAUTUS

Action One Liner Word
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.

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