There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.

If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
PLAUTUS

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

Known Man Oneself Return Worth
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
PLAUTUS

Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Fire is next akin to smoke.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is best to know the worst at once.
PLAUTUS

Best Oneself Worst
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
No man has perpetual good fortune.
PLAUTUS

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

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
The stronger always succeeds.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Fast Known Trouble

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