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For the worst of foes are those that have bright faces, gloomy hearts.

— Caecilius Statius

Hi sunt inimici pessumi fronte hilaro corde tristi.

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Notes from Wikiquote

Hypobolimaeus ('The Changeling'), fragment 5; as quoted by Gellius, XV, 9, 1 | Cp. Nonius, 205, 1–2

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