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Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

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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
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
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
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
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 like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide

Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!

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