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A crafty innkeeper at Ravenna lately cheated me. I asked him for wine and water; he sold me pure wine. - [Epigrams] A novice always behaves with propriety. - [Proverbs] Acerra always drinks till dawn. - [Proverbs] All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in your train, and drag with you to feasts, porticos and theaters. Thus, Fabulla, you seem handsome, thus you seem young. - [Epigrams] Be cheerful, if you are wise. - [Proverbs] Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains. - [Proverbs] Do you ask what sort of a maid I desire or dislike, Flaccus? I dislike one too easy and one too coy. The just mean, which lies between the two extremes, is what I approve; I like neither that which tortures nor that which cloys. - [Epigrams] Do you ask why I am unwilling to marry a rich wife? It is because I am unwilling to be taken to husband by my wife. The mistress of the house should be subordinate to her husband, for in no other way, Priscus, will the wife and husband be on an equality. - [Epigrams] Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity. - [Proverbs] Fannius, as he was fleeing from the enemy, put himself to death. Is not this, I ask, madness--to die, for fear of dying? - [Epigrams] For life is not to live, but to be well. - [Health] Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows? - [Flyfishing : Gifts] Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes. - [Proverbs] He says anything that first comes into his mouth. - [Proverbs] He who is not in readiness to-day, will be less prepared to-morrow. - [Proverbs] He who weighs his burdens, can bear them. - [Fortitude] Her grief is real who grieves when no one is by. - [Proverbs] Hidden evils are most dreaded. - [Proverbs] I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus. - [Epigrams] I have not a farthing in the house; one thing only remains for me to do, Regulus, and that is to sell the presents which I have received from you; are you inclined to buy them? - [Epigrams] I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife that shall be my master.] - [Proverbs] If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it. - [Fame] 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. - [Epigrams] It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure. - [Proverbs] It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched. - [Adversity] Displaying page 1 of 7 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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