You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIALGifts are like hooks.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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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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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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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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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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