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You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

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Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution 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
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
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth

You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.

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