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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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Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
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
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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

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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