If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
You drown him by your talk.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
PLAUTUS

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

Desire Fast Known Trouble
No man has perpetual good fortune.
PLAUTUS

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

Bury Genius Greatness Often
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let deeds match words.
PLAUTUS

Action One Liner Word
Man proposes, God disposes.
PLAUTUS

God Man Propose
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
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS

Day Friendship Guest Welcome
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
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Anand Thakur
The fool too late, his substance eaten up, reckons the cost.
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Anand Thakur

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