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You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

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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
Believing hear, what you deserve to hear: Your birthday as my own to me is dear. But yours gives most; for mine did only lend Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
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Believe Deserve Myself World
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.
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Excellence Praise Verse Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself

You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

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