Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

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

Believe Eyes See World
Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
PLAUTUS

Exception Expectation Result Rule
As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
PLAUTUS

Dowry Goodness Sufficient Wisdom
Every one can remember that which has interested himself.
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
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
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you speak insults you will hear them also.
PLAUTUS

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
All men love themselves.
PLAUTUS

Love Man One Liner
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman without paint is like food without salt.
PLAUTUS

Paint Salt Woman
It is difficult to fly without wings.
PLAUTUS

Difficult Fly Wings

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