If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
MARTIALGenuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on 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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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