No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Badly gotten, badly spent.
PLAUTUS

Bad Spent
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
PLAUTUS

Day Friendship Guest Welcome
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.
PLAUTUS

Fall In Love Fate Rock Worst
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
PLAUTUS

Football God Mortal
To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUS

Breathe Sieve Wasted Time
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.
PLAUTUS

Manner Mud Vulgar
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
PLAUTUS

Known Man Oneself Return Worth

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