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Life is not living, but living in health.

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I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself

Life is not living, but living in health.

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