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One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth

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