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They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

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Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself

They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]

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