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To have nothing is not poverty.

Martial

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
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
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 is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Whoever is not too wise is wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
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
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

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