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However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
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!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner

However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.

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