In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIALWork divided is in that manner shortened.
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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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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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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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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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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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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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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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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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