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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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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
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
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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
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
Laugh, if thou art wise.
MARTIAL

Laughter One Liner Wisdom
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself

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