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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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For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
I believe that man to be wretched whom none can please.
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Believe Man Myself Please
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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 good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself

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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