A vagrant is everywhere at home.
MARTIALYou’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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