Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Gift Place Smooth Word
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
PLAUTUS

Certain Lost Unknown
There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Anand Thakur
Ones oldest friend is the best.
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Anand Thakur
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
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.
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Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
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Anand Thakur
No man has perpetual good fortune.
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Anand Thakur

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