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.
MartialHe who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
MartialThe shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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