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I know all that better than my own name.

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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
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
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
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
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
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
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

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