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Be cheerful, if you are wise.

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Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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.
MARTIAL

Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
MARTIAL

Adversity Brave Himself Life True
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
MARTIAL

Death Shame Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

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