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I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
[Lat., Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.]
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
The grief of an heir is only masked laughter.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
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Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily
propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely
circulated.
The back-doore robs the house.
The back-doore robs the house.
A faire death honours the whole life.
A faire death honours the whole life.
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens,
and to rivers foords.
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens,
and to rivers foords.
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.
