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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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Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
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
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
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
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
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
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 folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted

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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