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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
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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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
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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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life

While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.

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