While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
MARTIAL
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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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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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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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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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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