A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
MARTIALIf 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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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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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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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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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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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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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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