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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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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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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, The work of Chloe. How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Life's not just about being alive, but being well.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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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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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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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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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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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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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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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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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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One genius has made many clever artists.
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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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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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