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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.

Martial

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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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Love Myself
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late

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