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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

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He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) biscuit which famous Rhodes has sent you.
MARTIAL

Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Work divided is in that manner shortened.
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Division Short Work
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
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
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

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

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If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

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