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The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Martial

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
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
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
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

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