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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

Martial

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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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
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
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural

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