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Spare the person but lash the vice.

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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
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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
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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