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Spare the person but lash the vice.

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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
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
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom

Spare the person but lash the vice.

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