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To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.

Plautus

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.
PLAUTUS

Dumb Handle Move Ring
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
PLAUTUS

Blame Home Mistake Point
And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.
PLAUTUS

Believe Eyes See World
He means well’ is useless unless he does well.
PLAUTUS

Condition Health Himself
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.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.
PLAUTUS

Doubt Gain Loss Occasion
It is a great plague to be too handsome a man.
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.
PLAUTUS

Greet. Poor Kindness Man Oneself Purpose Rich
How bitter it is to reap a harvest of evil for good that you have done!
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.
PLAUTUS

Lost Man Regard Shame
Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
PLAUTUS

Football God Mortal
Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!
PLAUTUS

Anand Thakur
You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.
PLAUTUS

Love Yourself

To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.

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