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I do not hate the man, but his vices.

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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
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
I wont let a wife lead me to the altar.
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Leadership Myself Wife
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue
Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
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Alive Life One Liner
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whose book full of them?
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Book Himself Writing
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
The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.
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Flaw Greatness Hide
If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.
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Anxiety Mouth Remember Right Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away.
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Fly Happiness Wings
You may envy every one, but no one envies you.
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Envy Jealous Yourself
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

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