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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

Martial

Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
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
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
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
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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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself

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