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

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

Business Master Yourself
Fire is next akin to smoke.
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Anand Thakur
Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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Anand Thakur
Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Let deeds correspond with words.
PLAUTUS

Action Match One Liner Word
I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
PLAUTUS

Love Myself Talk Truth
Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
PLAUTUS

Desire Expectation Frequent
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUS

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
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.
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Anand Thakur
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well.
PLAUTUS

Easy Finding Sick
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Anand Thakur
Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
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Anand Thakur
I am myself my own commander.
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Anand Thakur
He who has in due season become rich, unless he saves in due season, will in due season starve.
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Anand Thakur
Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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