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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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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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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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I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why I can only say this, I do not love thee.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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 merry if you are wise.
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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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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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