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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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Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.
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Greatness Present Return
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
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
The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
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Boredom Face Love Missing Myself Togetherness
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
Your seventh wife, Phileros, is now being buried in your field. No man’s field brings him greater profit than yours, Phileros.
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Bury Death Profit Wife Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
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
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
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
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
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
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice

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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