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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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Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
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
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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
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
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality

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