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I know all that better than my own name.

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Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
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
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
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 know all that better than my own name.

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