To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUSYour wealth is where your friends are.
More Plautus Quotes
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Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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Fire is next akin to smoke.
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I am myself my own commander.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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If you are wise, be wise; keep what goods the gods provide you.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.
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The day, water, sun, moon, night – I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.
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No guest is so welcome in a friend’s house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.
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A word to the wise is sufficient
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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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Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
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It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
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