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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.

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Where there are friends there is wealth.
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Friendship Wealth
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
It is difficult to fly without wings.
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Difficult Fly Wings
Practice yourself what you preach.
PLAUTUS

Practice Preach Yourself
It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.
PLAUTUS

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

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
Courage in danger is half the battle.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
PLAUTUS

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

Believe Eyes See World
There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction.
PLAUTUS

Balance Mindset Remedy
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
PLAUTUS

Animal Away Wolf
Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Ones oldest friend is the best.
PLAUTUS

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

Man Relative Respect
Always bring money along with your complaints.
PLAUTUS

Complaint Money Yourself
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The evil that we know is best.
PLAUTUS

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

Insult Talk Willing Yourself
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
PLAUTUS

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

Death Esteem Guilt Reason
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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.

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