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If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
MARTIAL

Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
MARTIAL

Goodness Man Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
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
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return

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