But you will soon pay for it, my friend, when you take off your clothes, and with distended stomach carry your peacock into the bath undigested! Hence a sudden death, and an intestate old age; the new and merry tale runs the round of every dinner-table, and the corpse is carried forth to burial amid the cheers of enraged friends!

count it the greatest of all sins to prefer life to honour, and to lose, for the sake of living, all that makes life worth having.

Bitter poverty has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

It is a poor thing to lean upon the fame of others, lest the pillars give way and the house fall down in ruin.

If nature's inspiration fails, indignation will beget the poem

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Difficile est satiram non scribere
[It is hard not to write a satire]

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

Where talent is lacking, anger writes poetry.

show me the apartment 235 that lets you sleep! In this city sleep costs millions, and that’s the root of the trouble.

incipe, Calliope. licet et considere: non est
cantandum, res uera agitur. narrate, puellae 35
Pierides, prosit mihi uos dixisse puellas.

mēns sāna in corpore sānō - Эрүүл биед саруул ухаан.

rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cygno”
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