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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.

Plautus

It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
PLAUTUS

Animal Away Wolf
You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
PLAUTUS

Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS

Man Relative Respect
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUS

Manner Mud Vulgar
You will stir up the hornets.
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
No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome
Never speak ill of an absent friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.

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