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

A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
PLAUTUS

Balance Mindset Remedy
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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 poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUS

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

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
Laws are subordinate to custom.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people’s wrath is as heavy as lead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Your wealth is where your friends are.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
PLAUTUS

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

Desire Fast Known Trouble
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
PLAUTUS

Labour Lose Word
That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
PLAUTUS

Desire Hope
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS

Day Friendship Guest Welcome

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