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

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
PLAUTUS

Labour Lose Word
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

One Liner Trap Worm
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

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

Best Oneself Worst
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.
PLAUTUS

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

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A man with courage has every blessing.
PLAUTUS

Blessing Courage Inspirational Man

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