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.
MARTIALBe cheerful, if you are wise.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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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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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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