Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
PLAUTUSWe are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor.
More Plautus Quotes
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You will stir up the hornets.
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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
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Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Poverty is a thorough instructress in all the arts.
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There are games in which it is better to lose than win.
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You drown him by your talk.
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Man’s fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable.
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Feast today makes fast tomorrow.
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It is best to know the worst at once.
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The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble.
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In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
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Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.
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It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.
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