It is a bitter disappointment when you have sown benefits, to reap injuries.

To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
PLAUTUS

Day Willing Yourself
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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
I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
PLAUTUS

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

Blessing Lose Man Understand Worth Yourself
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Practice yourself what you preach.
PLAUTUS

Practice Preach Yourself
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
PLAUTUS

Dumb Handle Move Ring
No man is wise enough by himself.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
PLAUTUS

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

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

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur

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