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There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

Martial

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
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
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
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
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
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
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past

There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.

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