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Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
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Gratitude Greedy Myself Refusal
A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place Yourself
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
What’s a wretched man? A man whom no man pleases.
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Man Please Satisfaction
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
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies.
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Advice Attack Deep Lion Rush
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures, That is the only wealth for ever yours.
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Fate Friendship Secure Wealth Yourself
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 do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
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Fame Life Man Name Yourself
Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.
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Friendship Master Service Yourself
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
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; I can only say this, “I do not love thee.”
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Love Myself
Wine and women bring misery.
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Alcohol Misery Wine
A vagrant is everywhere at home.
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Home One Liner
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child.
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Children Heart Mindset Myself Purity Wife
Neither fear your death’s day nor long for it.
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Day Death Fear Yourself
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
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner

Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.

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