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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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