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

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
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Practice yourself what you preach.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
PLAUTUS

Man Relative Respect
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is best to know the worst at once.
PLAUTUS

Best Oneself Worst
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS

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

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
He who rushes headlong into love will fare worse than if he had cast himself from a precipice.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUS

Best Journey Road Travel
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
PLAUTUS

Known Man Oneself Return Worth

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