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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.

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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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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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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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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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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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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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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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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?]
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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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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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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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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 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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