When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
MARTIALWish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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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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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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One genius has made many clever artists.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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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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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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