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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

Martial

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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
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
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

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The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

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