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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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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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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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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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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 should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
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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 wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.]
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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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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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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