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To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.

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I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
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.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
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
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.

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