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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
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman

There is no living with thee, nor without thee.

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