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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
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
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
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself

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