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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
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
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
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

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