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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
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
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife

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