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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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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
To-morrow I will live, the fool does say; To-day itself’s too late, the wise lived yesterday.
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Fools Future Past Wisdom
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
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn

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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