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I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

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Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing 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
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
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Death Fools Life Promise Yourself

I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.

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