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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Plautus

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
PLAUTUS

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.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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 wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUS

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
PLAUTUS

Celebration Sweet Wine Word
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
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
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUS

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

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUS

Gift Place Smooth Word
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Good things soon find a purchaser.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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Desire Expectation Frequent
Your wealth is where your friends are.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

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