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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
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
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
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.
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Biscuit Commitment Mistake Slave Yourself
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live

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