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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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Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
A jar of wine so priceless did not deserve to die. and Never think of leaving perfume or wines to your heir. Administer these youself and let him have the money.
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Deserve Leaving Money Perfume Price Wine Yourself
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
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
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point
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
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
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
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing 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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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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