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

It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You drown him by your talk.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Your wealth is where your friends are.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
PLAUTUS

Football God Mortal
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUS

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

Day Willing Yourself
Ones oldest friend is the best.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
PLAUTUS

Bury Genius Greatness Often
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
PLAUTUS

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

Blame Home Mistake Point
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself

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