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Birds of a feather will flock together.

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Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
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

Birds of a feather will flock together.

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