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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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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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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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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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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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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why I can only say this, I do not love thee.
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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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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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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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