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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.

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He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
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
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
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
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk

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