Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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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Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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Wine and women bring misery.
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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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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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I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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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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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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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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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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