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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
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Be merry if you are wise.
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To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
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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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In adversity it is easy to despise life he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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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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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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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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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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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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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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