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  • Latin as that emperor had, [2053] qui nescit dissimulare, nescit vivere, they are unfit to do their country service, to perform or undertake any action or employment, which may tend to the good of a commonwealth, except it be to fight, or to do country justice, with common sense, which every yeoman can likewise do.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Therefore Minus malum, [6205] a less mischief, Nevisanus holds, dissimulare, to be [6206] Cunarum emptor, a buyer of cradles, as the proverb is, than to be too solicitous.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • It has been long said, Qui nescit dissimulare nescit regnare: I go still further, and say, that without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Sed com nostrum non sit veritatem vspiam dissimulare, nos haud negandum ducimus conciones sacras circa id tempus, quo iste

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Sed com nostrum non sit veritatem vspiam dissimulare, nos haud negandum ducimus conciones sacras circa id tempus, quo iste

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Suriano regards the cardinal as without a rival in this particular: "Che di saper dissimulare non ha pari al mondo."

    The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird

  • "Nescit regnare qui nescit dissimulare," wrote the wily bishop.

    The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa Paul Barron Watson

  • _Tr_ I i 61-62 '_ut titulo careas_, ipso noscere _colore_;/dissimulare uelis, te liquet esse meum' and _EP_ II ix 49-52 (to King Cotys) 'nec regum quisquam magis est instructus ab illis [_sc_ the liberal arts] ... carmina testantur, quae _si tua nomina demas_/Threicium iuuenem composuisse negem'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • _Ibis_ 52 'teque breui _qui sis_ dissimulare sinam', _Ibis_ 61 '_qui sis_ nondum quaerentibus edo', and _EP_ III vi 57 'teque tegam, _qui sis_'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • [257] On the subject of dissimulation Cardan writes: "Assuevi vultum in contrarium semper efformare; ideo simulare possum, dissimulare nescio."

    Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study 1886

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