What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your 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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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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