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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
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
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame 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
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

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