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That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

Martial

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.
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Deep Existence Live Man
One genius has made many clever artists.
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Artist Genius Oneself
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
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
From no place can you exclude the fates.
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Fate Place 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
If fame comes after death, I’m in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.
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Himself Leaving Mourn
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
For wealth’s now given to none but to the rich.
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Rich Wealth
He who prefers to give Linus the half of what he wishes to borrow, rather than to lend him the whole, prefers to lose only the half.
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Borrow Himself Lose Preference
He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.
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Burden Himself Weigh
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Those they praise, but they read the others.
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One Liner Praise Reading
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

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