I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. [Lat., Nolo virum facili redimit qui sanquine famam; Hunc volo laudari qui sine morte potest.]
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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.
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather. [Lat., Memento, in pellicula, cerdo, tenere tuo.]
I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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.
One genius has made many clever artists.
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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