A word to the wise is enough

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It expresses the intention to give a brief bit of advice or a quick explanation that an intelligent person should find sufficient without more details.

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This phrase comes from Roman playwrights of around 200 BCE, Titus Maccius Plautus and Publius Terentius, who both wrote verbum sapienti sat est, “A word to (the) wise is enough.”