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A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.

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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today.
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Inspirational Life Live
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness

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