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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
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
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
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
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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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself

You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!

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