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James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899.

Petronius

Animus quod perdidit optat / Atque in præteritâ se totus imagine versat—The mind yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in dreaming of the past.

Mundus universus exercet histrionem—All men practise the actor’s art.

Necesse est cum insanientibus furere, nisi solus relinqueris—You must be mad with the insane unless you wish to be left quite alone.

Vera redit facies, dissimulata perit—Our natural countenance comes back, the assumed mask falls off.