Quote #5

Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris et dant convivam balnea sola tibi mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses: iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.

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  1. You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
  2. Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
  3. Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own.
  4. You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.
  5. Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie.
  6. Nullos esse deos, inane caelum Adfirmat Segius: probatque, quod se Factum, dum negat haec, videt beatum.
  7. Lasciva est nobis pagina, vita proba.
  8. si post fata venit gloria, non propero.

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