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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

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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
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
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
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.

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