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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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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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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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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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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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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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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's not just about being alive, but being well.
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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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