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He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

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He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS

Desire Expectation Frequent
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
PLAUTUS

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

Desire Fast Known Trouble
In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUS

Best Journey Road Travel
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
PLAUTUS

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
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
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The stronger always succeeds.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Give assistance, and receive thanks lighter than a feather: injure a man, and his wrath will be like lead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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
Your wealth is where your friends are.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See Yourself
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
PLAUTUS

Animal Away Wolf
Where there are friends there is wealth.
PLAUTUS

Friendship Wealth
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

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