You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
MARTIALConceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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