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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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One genius has made many clever artists.
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A fisherman's walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
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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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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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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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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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He writes nothing whose writings are not read.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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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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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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Can the fish love the fisherman? [Lat., Piscatorem piscis amare potest?]
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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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