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

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

Anand Thakur
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

Paint Salt Woman
You drown him by your talk.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUS

Gift Place Smooth Word
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUS

Beginning Easy End Start
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
PLAUTUS

Blame Home Mistake Point
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUS

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

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

Anand Thakur
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
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
It is easy to rule over the good.
PLAUTUS

Easy Goodness Rule
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
PLAUTUS

Animal Away Wolf
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUS

Manner Mud Vulgar
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
PLAUTUS

Age Capacity Wisdom

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