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What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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 weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.
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Cheer Enjoyment Fear Past Satisfaction Thankful
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
You importune me, Tucca, to present you with my books. I shall not do so; for you want to sell, not to read, them.
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Book Myself Present Reading Yourself

What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.

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