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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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Form God Gold Himself
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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Love Myself
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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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
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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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
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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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live

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