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If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
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
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
My poems are naughty, but my life is pure.
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Life Naughty Poem Purity
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Gifts are like hooks.
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Gift One Liner
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
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
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
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.

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