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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
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Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality.
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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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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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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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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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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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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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You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
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Be not too thick with anybody your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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