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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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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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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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed if you're a good man, you're a wonder!
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For wealth's now given to none but to the rich.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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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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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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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.]
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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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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