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Can the fish love the fisherman?

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While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
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
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.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself

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