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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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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]
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A good man doubles the length of his existence to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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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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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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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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Gifts are like hooks.
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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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