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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
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
It is folly to waste labour about trifles.
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Fools Labour Wasted
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
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Tis easy to write epigrams nicely, but to write a book is hard.
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Book Easy Hard Writing Yourself
Can the fish love the fisherman?
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Deep Love One Liner
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Givers of great dinners know few enemies.
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Enemy Food Greatness
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
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Swan Tongue
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
The present joys of life we doubly taste, By looking back with pleasure to the past.
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Doubt Ourselves Pleasure Present Taste
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
Birds of a feather will flock together.
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Bird Friendship Togetherness
Too late is tomorrow’s life; live for today.
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Day Life Present
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
No man is quick enough to enjoy life.
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Enough Life Man Quick
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
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Break Care Commitment Crystal Fear Hands Yourself
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
To be able to enjoy one’s past life is to live twice.
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Enjoyment Life Live Past
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself

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