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Be cheerful, if you are wise.

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Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
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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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
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
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
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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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

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