A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
MARTIALYou 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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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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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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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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