Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIALEpigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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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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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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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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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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