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

Plautus

How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A man with courage has every blessing.
PLAUTUS

Blessing Courage Inspirational Man
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
PLAUTUS

Greet. Poor Kindness Man Oneself Purpose Rich
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let deeds match words.
PLAUTUS

Action One Liner Word
All men love themselves.
PLAUTUS

Love Man One Liner
It is difficult to fly without wings.
PLAUTUS

Difficult Fly Wings
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
PLAUTUS

Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
Man is no man, but a wolf.
PLAUTUS

Animal Man Wolf
Laws are subordinate to custom.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
PLAUTUS

Bury Genius Greatness Often
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I’ve seen many men avoid the region of good advice before they were really near it.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Drink, live like the Greeks, eat, gorge.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
PLAUTUS

Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How great in number are the little minded men.
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Greatness Man Mindset Number
Practice yourself what you preach.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
You drown him by your talk.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
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
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
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Football God Mortal

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