Quote #15

Difficilis facilis iucundus acerbus es idem: Nec tecum possum vivere nec sine te.

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  1. Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
  2. Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
  3. Laudas balnea versibus trecentis Cenantis bene Pontici, Sabelle. Vis cenare, Sabelle, non lavari.
  4. A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
  5. Nobis pereunt et imputantur.
  6. si post fata venit gloria, non propero.
  7. Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum.
  8. You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

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