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How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

Plautus

The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
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
Conquered, we conquer.
PLAUTUS

Conquer One Liner
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Practice yourself what you preach.
PLAUTUS

Practice Preach Yourself
When you fly from temptation, don’t leave a forwarding address. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUS

Beginning Easy End Start
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
PLAUTUS

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

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

Anand Thakur
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS

Love Yourself
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See Yourself

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