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The gods play games with men as balls.

Plautus

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.
PLAUTUS

Learning Life Sufficient
Do you never look at yourself when you abuse another person?
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let not your expenditure exceed your income.
PLAUTUS

Expense Income Money Yourself
To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
PLAUTUS

Duty Honesty Honor Man Remember
Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.
PLAUTUS

Man Mistake Please Woman Worst
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is difficult to fly without wings.
PLAUTUS

Difficult Fly Wings
In everything the middle road is best.
PLAUTUS

Best Journey Road Travel
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

The gods play games with men as balls.

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