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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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If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
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
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
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
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
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Be cheerful, if you are wise.
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Cheerful One Liner Wisdom Yourself
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
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
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile

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