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Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

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You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
MARTIAL

Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
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
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
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
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True

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