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Whoever is not too wise is wise.

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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man 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
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
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom 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
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst

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