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He means well’ is useless unless he does well.

Plautus

He who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Fortitude is a great help in distress.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
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
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.
PLAUTUS

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

Anand Thakur
You will stir up the hornets.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.
PLAUTUS

Animal Away Wolf
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUS

Compliment Criticism Insincere Preference
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
PLAUTUS

Character Deserve Disgrace Establishment Ourselves
Man is no man, but a wolf.
PLAUTUS

Animal Man Wolf
Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods play games with men as balls.
PLAUTUS

Ball Game God Man Play
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
PLAUTUS

Call Courage Hard Knock Occasion
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
PLAUTUS

Certain Lost Unknown
It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
PLAUTUS

Beginning Easy End Start
In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUS

Best Journey Road Travel
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow.
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.
PLAUTUS

Annoy Friendship Guest Himself Home Welcome

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