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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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Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
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
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
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
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness

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