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Our days pass by, and are scored against us.

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You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
MARTIAL

Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
MARTIAL

Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
MARTIAL

Body Old Revolution
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide

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