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A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

Martial

Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
You’ll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.
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Run Yourself
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
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
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
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
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
You’re obstinate, pliant, merry, morose, all at once. For me there’s no living with you, or without you.
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Absence Love Myself Togetherness Yourself
A fisherman’s walk: three steps and overboard.
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Man Walk
Red-haired, black-lipped, club-footed, and blink-eyed; if you’re a good man, you’re a wonder!
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Goodness Man Yourself
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
Short is the life of those who possess great accomplishments, and seldom do they reach a good old age. Whatever thou lovest, pray that thou mayest not set too high a value on it.
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Accomplishment High Life Possession Short Value Yourself

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

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