Wine and women bring misery.
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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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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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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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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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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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