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Can the fish love the fisherman?

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Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Laugh, if thou art wise.
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Laughter One Liner Wisdom
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself

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