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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Your 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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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
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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Lake Luxury Myself Water
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself

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