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!
MARTIALSome are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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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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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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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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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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