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Hidden evils are most dreaded.

Martial

Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
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
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural

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