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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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Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself
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
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True

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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