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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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You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory

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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