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

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
PLAUTUS

Celebration Sweet Wine Word
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame
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
The stronger always succeeds.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
PLAUTUS

Exception Expectation Result Rule
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.
PLAUTUS

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time

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