Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
MARTIALYou 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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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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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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Wine and women bring misery.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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