I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
MARTIALRemember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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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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Be merry if you are wise.
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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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I 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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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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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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You 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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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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