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If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
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
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself

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