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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
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
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
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

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