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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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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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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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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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Be merry if you are wise.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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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All your female friends are either old or ugly nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young.
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I'm what I seem not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
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