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Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

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Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
MARTIAL

Laughter Time
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
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction

Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

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