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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. As given in Burmann's Anthohgia. Bk. V. . (1778) Sub rosa. Under the rose (i.e., secretly). The rose was emblematic of secrecy with the ancients. Cupid bribed Harpocrates, god of silence, with a rose, not to divulge the amours of Venus. Hence a host hung a rose over his tables that bis guests might know that under it words spoken were to remain secret. Harpocrates is Horus, god of the rising sun. Found in Gregory Nazianzen—Carmen. Vol. H. P. 27. (Ed. 1611) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Swift) For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie. Chaucer—The Ten Commandments of Love. 41. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum. Heywood—Proverbs. Pt. II. Ch. V. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Franklin, Shakespeare}}) | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. Deuteronomy. XXIX. 29. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. Benj. Franklin—Poor Richard. (1735) | seealso = (See also {{sc|Chaucer}}) | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. Gen. Thomas Harrison—Defence at his trial. Account of the Trial of Twenty Regicides. (1660) P. 39. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Acts) Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira. Never inquire into another man's secret; but conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both by wine and anger to reveal it. Horace—Epistles. I. 18. 37. There is a skeleton on every house. Saying from story in Italian Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie mais il e;happe dans l'amour. We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. La Bruyère—Les Caractères. IV. u Toute revelation d'un secret est la faute de celui qui l'a confie When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. La Bruyère—Les Caractères. V. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret: Le porter loin est difficile aux dames; Et je sais m&ne sur ce fait Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes. Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this La Fontaine—Fables. VIII. 6. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. La Rochefoucauld—Maxims. No. 90. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Vitae poscsnia celant. Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. Lucretius—Re Rerum Natura. IV. 1,182. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nothing is secret which shall not be made manifest. Luke. VEIL 17. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain. | author = Massinger | work = Unnatural Combat. Act V. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A secret at home is like rocks under tide. D. M. Mulock—Magnus and Morna. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andem nicht mehr in der Gewalt. He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. Jean Paul Richter—Titon. Zykel 123. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Tell it not in Gath; publish it not in the streets of Askelon. II Samuel. I. 20. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Alium silere quod voles, primus sile. If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it yourself. Seneca—Hippolytus. 876. Also St. Martin ofr Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu. Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. Seneca—Œdipus. 826. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 695 }}