Be merry if you are wise.
MARTIALMake it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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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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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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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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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To have nothing is not poverty.
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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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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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