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Be merry if you are wise.

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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
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
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
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
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
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh

Be merry if you are wise.

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