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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?

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No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden

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