Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
MARTIALI seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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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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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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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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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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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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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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