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“Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.”
— I, 91.
“I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee.”
— I, 32, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, / The reason why I cannot tell; / But this alone I know full well, / I do not love thee, Doctor Fell", Tom Brown, Laconics.
“Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est.”
— Life is not living, but living in health.
“Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”
— X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest / Live well: how long or short permit to heaven", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book xi, line 553.
“Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.”
— It is not poverty, Nestor, to have nothing at all.
“He who refuses nothing...will soon have nothing to refuse.”
— XII, 79.

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