If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
PLAUTUS

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
PLAUTUS

Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
It is much easier to begin than to end.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
A word to the wise is sufficient
PLAUTUS

Sufficient Wisdom Word
I am myself my own commander.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let deeds match words.
PLAUTUS

Action One Liner Word
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
PLAUTUS

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
Riches, rightly used, breed delight.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Good things soon find a purchaser.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
PLAUTUS

Difficult Fly Wings
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
PLAUTUS

Hands Injustice Simplicity
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Hope

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