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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

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Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
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
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

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