There’s No Hiding It: Antiphanes, fr. 235

“Pheidias, a person can readily conceal everything, except in these two cases: when he’s drunk, and when he’s in love.”

κρύψαι, Φειδία,
ἅπαντα τἄλλα τις δύναιτ’ ἂν πλὴν δυοῖν,
οἶνόν τε πίνων εἰς ἔρωτά τ’ ἐμπεσών

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