When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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