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

Animal Away Wolf
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
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
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Anand Thakur
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS

Desire Expectation Frequent
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

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

Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
PLAUTUS

Fast Feast Future
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How great in number are the little minded men.
PLAUTUS

Greatness Man Mindset Number
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

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