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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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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame

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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