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Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
PLAUTUS

Learning Life Sufficient
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
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
Good things soon find a purchaser.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
PLAUTUS

Day Willing Yourself
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No man has perpetual good fortune.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
PLAUTUS

Greet. Poor Kindness Man Oneself Purpose Rich
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Worthy things happen to the worthy.
PLAUTUS

Deserve Worth
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
PLAUTUS

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
PLAUTUS

Life Mouse Oneself Trust
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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