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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.

Martial

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
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
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice

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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