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Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.
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Bald Kiss Myself Nature Sin Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.

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