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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

Martial

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
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
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
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

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