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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
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
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run 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
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself

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