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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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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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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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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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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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Gifts are like hooks.
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He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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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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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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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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You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that's how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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