This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUS

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
PLAUTUS

Celebration Sweet Wine Word
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS

Man Relative Respect
Courage is its own reward.
PLAUTUS

Courage One Liner Reward
Man is no man, but a wolf.
PLAUTUS

Animal Man Wolf
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

One Liner Trap Worm
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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