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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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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
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
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
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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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live

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