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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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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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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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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 wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]
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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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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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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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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Life's not just about being alive, but being well.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
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Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
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He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
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Be not too thick with anybody your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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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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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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