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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
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
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk

What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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