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

Plautus

Worthy things happen to the worthy.
PLAUTUS

Deserve Worth
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUS

Manner Mud Vulgar
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
PLAUTUS

Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
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
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Hope
Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
PLAUTUS

Dumb Handle Move Ring
If you want to do something, do it!
PLAUTUS

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

Easy Goodness Rule
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PLAUTUS

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

Business Master Yourself
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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

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