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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

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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
I know all that better than my own name.
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Better Myself Name
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
To have nothing is not poverty.
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One Liner Poverty
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.
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Death Shame Yourself
Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?
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Aware Fly Gift Himself Swallow
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 should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.
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Day Fear Yourself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Be merry if you are wise.
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One Liner Wisdom
You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.
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Death Live Poet Praise Worth
Your page stands against you and says to you that you are a thief.
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Page Stand Thief Yourself

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

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