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He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
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
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar.
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Nectar Preserve Shine Shrine
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
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
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Life is not living, but living in health.
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Health Life Live One Liner
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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
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
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
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
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

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