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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
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
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
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
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Doubt Existence Goodness Live Man
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
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
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst

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