To waste one’s breath; to pump into a sieve.
PLAUTUSThat which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
More Plautus Quotes
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Your wealth is where your friends are.
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Badly gotten, badly spent.
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That which you know, know not; and that which you see, see not.
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You will stir up the hornets.
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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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If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.
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Let deeds match words.
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Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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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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I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry.
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There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
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And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended.
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I love truth and wish to have it always spoken to me: I hate a liar.
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Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.
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