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Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. [Lat., Cineri gloria sera est.] - Epigrams (I, 26, 8) [Glory] I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, "I do not love thee." [Lat., Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum posse dicere: non amo te.] - Epigrams (I, 33, 1) [Love] She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen. [Lat., Illa dolet vere qui sine teste dolet.] - Epigrams (I, 34, 4) [Grief] 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.] - Epigrams (I, 9, 5) [Fame] Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master. [Lat., Non bene, crede mihi, servo servitur amico; Sit liber, dominus qui volet esse meus.] - Epigrams (II, 32, 7) [Freedom] Be merry if you are wise. [Lat., Ride si sapis.] - Epigrams (II, 41, 1) [Merriment] This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death? [Lat., Hic rogo non furor est ne moriare mori?] - Epigrams (II, 80, 2) [Death] He does not write those verses no one reads. [Lat., Non scribit, cujus carmina nemo legit.] - Epigrams (III, 9, 2) [Poets] I know all that better than my own name. [Lat., Et teneo melius ista quam meum nomen.] - Epigrams (IV, 37, 7) [Knowledge] From no place can you exclude the fates. [Lat., Nullo fata loco possis excludere.] - Epigrams (IV, 60, 5) [Fate] If fame comes after death, I am in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.] - Epigrams (V, 10, 12) [Fame] Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be. [Lat., Hoc ego, tuque sumus: set quod sum, non potes esse: Tu quod es, e populo quilibet esse potest.] - Epigrams (V, 13, 9) [Comparison] Thou art the cause, O reader, of my dwelling on lighter topics, when I would rather handle serious ones. [Lat., Seria cum possim, quod delectantia malim Scribere, tu causa es lector.] - Epigrams (V, 16, 1) [Reading] Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours. [Lat., Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis; Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.] - Epigrams (V, 42) [Possession] To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself's too late, the wise lived yesterday. [Lat., Cras vives; hodie jam vivere, Postume, serum est. - Epigrams (V, 58), (Cowley's translation) [Life] Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return. [Lat., Quisquis magna dedit, voluit sibi magna remitti.] - Epigrams (V, 59, 3) [Gifts] A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. [Lat., Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus: hoc est vivere bis, vita posse priore frui.] - Epigrams (X, 23, 7) [Life] To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.] - Epigrams (XI, 32, 8) [Poverty : Proverbs] In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.] - Epigrams (XI, 56, 15) [Bravery] Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.] - Epigrams (XII, 10, 2) [Fortune : Proverbs] An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.] - Epigrams (XII, 51, 2) [Honesty] Displaying page 7 of 7 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7]
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