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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

Martial

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous 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
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
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
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

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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