Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Be merry if you are wise.
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He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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