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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
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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Book Himself Writing
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner

You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

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