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Birds of a feather will flock together.

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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
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 nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn

Birds of a feather will flock together.

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