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I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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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
Nothing is more ill-timed than an ill-timed laugh.
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Laughter Time
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
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 wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
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
The face that cannot smile is never fair.
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Face Fair Happiness Smile
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself
Man loves malice, but not against one-eyed men nor the unfortunate, but against the fortunate and proud.
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Eyes Love Man Proud Unfortunate
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.
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Lake Luxury Myself Water
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if I think death too high a price to pay for your praise.
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Admire Death Old Pay Poet Praise Price Thinking Yourself
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man

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