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It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

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When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
I do not hate the man, but his vices.
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Hate Himself Man One Liner Vice
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
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Form God Gold Himself
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
They let out on hire their passions and eloquence. [Referring to lawyers.]
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Elegant Hire Passion
What quick wit is found in sudden straits!
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Finding Quick Sudden
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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
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 shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, “The work of Chloe.” How could she have expressed herself more plainly?
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Expression Inscription Place Shame
Remember, cobbler, to keep to your leather.
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Leather Remember Yourself
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
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 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
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.
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Fascination One Liner Point

It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.

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