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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.

Martial

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness

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