To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
MARTIALHe 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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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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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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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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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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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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Be merry if you are wise.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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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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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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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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