You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
MARTIALYou puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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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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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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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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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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