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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine 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.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
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
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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
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

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

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