Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
MARTIALYour 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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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He 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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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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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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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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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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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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