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Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair

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