What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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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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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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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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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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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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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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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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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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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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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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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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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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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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