Can the fish love the fisherman?
MARTIALI would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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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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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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I know all that better than my own name.
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While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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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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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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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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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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