A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIALBelieving hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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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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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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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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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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