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

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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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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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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
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It is easy in adversity to despise death he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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