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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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It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
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
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
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
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Some are good, some are middling, the most are bad.
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Bad Goodness
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself

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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