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.
MARTIALRed-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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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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