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Hidden evils are most dreaded.

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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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
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
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself

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