Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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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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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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