In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
MARTIALSome things are good, some middling, more bad.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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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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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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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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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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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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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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