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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

You're obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there's no living with you, or without you.

You ask what a nice girl will do?She won't give an inch,but she won't say no.

Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.

Laugh if you are wise, girl, laugh.

Someone I flattered in a book pretends he owes me nothing. Oh the trash I have for friends.
- Martial (40 AD - 104 AD), Epigram V, xxxvi

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Because he hates to praise by name
He praises everybody. Vice
And virtue must look much the same
To one who calls the whole world "nice".

...to be able to enjoy the life you have spent, is to live it twice.