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Wine is a cunning wrestler.

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

Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Desire Fast Known Trouble
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
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Expense Income Money Yourself
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
PLAUTUS

Age Capacity Wisdom
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Believe Eyes See World
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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Exception Expectation Result Rule
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Anand Thakur
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To snatch the worm from the trap.
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One Liner Trap Worm
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Anand Thakur
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
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Balance Mindset Remedy
No man has perpetual good fortune.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
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Anand Thakur

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

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