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The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
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
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.

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