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The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing 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
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
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
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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction

The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.

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