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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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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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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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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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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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 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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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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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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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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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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