What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
MARTIALHe 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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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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Those they praise, but they read the others.
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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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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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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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