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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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He 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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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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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Art Myself Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
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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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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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Believe Deserve Myself World
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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