It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.
PLAUTUSHe means well’ is useless unless he does well.
More Plautus Quotes
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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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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
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To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Arrogance is the outgrowth of prosperity.
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I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
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It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.
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Smooth words in place of gifts.
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Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
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You must spend money, if you wish to make money.
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Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.
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If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.
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To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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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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