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

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To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
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
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
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
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
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice

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