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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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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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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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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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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, The work of Chloe. How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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