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Quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor.
— Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance.
— Seneca, Hippolytus, CCCLXIII.
Sit mihi mensa tripes et Coucha salis puri et toga quæ defendere frigus Quamvis crassa queat.
— Let me have a three-legged table, a dish of salt, and a cloak which, altho' coarse, will keep off the cold.
— Horace, Satires, I. 3. 13.
Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
— Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
— "De Litteris Colendis", in Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau De la philosophie scolastique (1850) p. 10; translation from T. H. Huxley Science and Education ([1893] 2007) p. 132
Nam si tibi sidera cessant, nil faciet longi mensura incognita nervi, Quamvis te nudum spumanti Virro labello viderit et blandae adsidue densaeque tabellae sollicitent, autos gar ephelketai andra kinaidos.
juvenal— If your stars go against you, the fantastic size of your cock will get you precisely nowhere, however much Virro may have drooled at the spectacle of your naked charms, though love-letters come in by the dozen, imploring your favors.IX, line 33.
Hei mihi, quam facile est (Quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!
— Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
— Ovid, Ad Liviam, 9
