I know all that better than my own name.
MARTIALA good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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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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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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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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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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