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From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing 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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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
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
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
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
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
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself

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