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Be cheerful, if you are wise.

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Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom 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
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
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
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom

Be cheerful, if you are wise.

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