To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIALIf you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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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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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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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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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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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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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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