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.

The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
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
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is much easier to begin than to end.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
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
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
PLAUTUS

Love Myself Talk Truth
Fire is next akin to smoke.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Smooth words in place of gifts.
PLAUTUS

Gift Place Smooth Word
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
PLAUTUS

Life Mouse Oneself Trust
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury

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