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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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Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
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
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place 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
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.
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Agreement Food Movie Prevent Proud
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself

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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