Spare the person but lash the vice.
MARTIALWhile an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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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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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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 not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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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 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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