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Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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