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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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Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late live today. Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say Today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.
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Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.
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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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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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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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To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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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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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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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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