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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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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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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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Non est, crede mihi, sapientis dicere 'Vivam': Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life is too late live today. Variant translation: Tomorrow will I live, the fool does say Today itself's too late the wise lived yesterday.
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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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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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 puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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