Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
MARTIALHe 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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One genius has made many clever artists.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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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 should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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