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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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There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.
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Body Old Revolution
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
A cook should double one sense have: for he Should taster for himself and master be.
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Cook Doubt Himself Master Taste
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
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
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
Fortune gives many too much, but none enough.
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Enough Fate Fortune
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.
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Greatness Myself Opinion Worth
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.
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Friendship Short Writing Yourself
I’m what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have.
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Color Myself Natural
You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe–or she will call you ungrateful.
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Blessing Care Fortune Gratitude Observation Sadness Yourself
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst

When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.

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