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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You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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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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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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