To have nothing is not poverty.
MARTIALGifts 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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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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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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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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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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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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