When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALThe 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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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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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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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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