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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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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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Lake Luxury Myself Water
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
MARTIAL

Color Myself Natural
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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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
From no place can you exclude the fates.
MARTIAL

Fate Place Yourself
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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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
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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Art Myself Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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

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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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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