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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.

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Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
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
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
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
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself

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