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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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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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In adversity it is easy to despise life he is truly brave who can endure a writeched life
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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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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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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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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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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 should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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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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It is easy in adversity to despise death he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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