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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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This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
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 admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
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
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
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
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
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
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
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune

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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