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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.

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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
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
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself

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