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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
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
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

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