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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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Anand Thakur
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
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
PLAUTUS

Known See Yourself
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUS

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

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

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