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To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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I'm what I seem not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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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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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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 you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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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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A good man doubles the length of his existence to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Gifts are like hooks.
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