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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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Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
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
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
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
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
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing 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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