To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUSKnow not what you know, and see not what you see.
More Plautus Quotes
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Without feathers it isn’t easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers.
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The gods play games with men as balls.
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The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious.
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Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.
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A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.
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Always bring money along with your complaints.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
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And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned.
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How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
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