A word to the wise is sufficient

Practice yourself what you preach.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
PLAUTUS

Life Mouse Oneself Trust
To ask that which is unjust at the hands of the just, is an injustice in itself; to expect that which is just from the unjust, is simple folly.
PLAUTUS

Hands Injustice Simplicity
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Anand Thakur
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUS

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You will stir up the hornets.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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Anand Thakur
Man proposes, God disposes.
PLAUTUS

God Man Propose
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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