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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.

Martial

Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
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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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom

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