What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
MARTIALYou 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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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