What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.