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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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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
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
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
Genuine is the sorrow endured without anyone else knowing about it.
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Endurance Genuine Known Sorrow
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
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
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
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 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

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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