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1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

Martial

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  He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?

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  If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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  For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.

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  You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

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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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  Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

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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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  To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.

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  She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.

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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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  Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

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  There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.

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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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