You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.

Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
PLAUTUS

Known Man Oneself Return Worth
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS

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

Ball Game God Man Play
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
PLAUTUS

Labour Lose Word
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUS

Manner Mud Vulgar
Let deeds correspond with words.
PLAUTUS

Action Match One Liner Word
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
PLAUTUS

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

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

Anand Thakur
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
PLAUTUS

Blame Home Mistake Point

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