Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
MARTIALHidden evils are most dreaded.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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