Birds of a feather will flock together.
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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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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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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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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