I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
PLAUTUSTo waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
More Plautus Quotes
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You will stir up the hornets.
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
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Practice yourself what you preach.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
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Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.
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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
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That man will never be unwelcome to others who makes himself agreeable to his own family.
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
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There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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