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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

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A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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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Book Himself Writing
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
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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Form God Gold Himself
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

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