When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALWhen your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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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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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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