“Hairy in front, opportunity is bald behind.”

—  Cato the Elder

Disticha, Bk. ii, No. 26. The Distichs of Cato were long attributed to Cato the Elder but probably are the work of a much later author called Dionysius Cato from the 3rd or 4th century A.D.
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Fronte capillata, post est occasio calva.

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