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Difficult and easy-going, pleasant and churlish, you are at the same time: I can neither live with you nor without you.

— Martial Epigrams (104)

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

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Notes from Wikiquote

Compare: "Thus I can neither live with you nor without you", Ovid, Amores, Book III, xib, 39

Variants

Difficult or easy, pleasant or bitter, you are the same you: I cannot live with you—or without you.

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