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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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 vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted

Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.

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