It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
MARTIALFortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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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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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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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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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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