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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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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
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
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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
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
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
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men.
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Arms Exercise Man Strong Worthy
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution

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