There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.

Laws are subordinate to custom.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUS

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Where there are friends there is wealth.
PLAUTUS

Friendship Wealth
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Fast Known Trouble

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