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A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

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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 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
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
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
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
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life

A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.

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