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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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