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You puff the poets of other days,
The living you deplore.
Spare me the accolade: your praise
Is not worth dying for.
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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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They praise those verses, yes, but read something else.
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No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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104
(aged 63)
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