I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
PLAUTUS

Labour Lose Word
To snatch the worm from the trap.
PLAUTUS

One Liner Trap Worm
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame
No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
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Anand Thakur
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
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Anand Thakur
It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.
PLAUTUS

Benefit Bitter Disappointment Injury
It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.
PLAUTUS

Business Master Yourself
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 mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
PLAUTUS

Life Mouse Oneself Trust
You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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Anand Thakur
Conquered, we conquer.
PLAUTUS

Conquer One Liner

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