Be cheerful, if you are wise.
MARTIALSee, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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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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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Gifts are like hooks.
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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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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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