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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]
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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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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Life's not just about being alive, but being well.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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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 cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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