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I do not hate the man, but his vices.

Martial

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
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
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
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Charm Prize Rare Suit
While you cannot resolve what you are, at last you may be nothing.
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Solution Yourself
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner. If that appears to you too trifling a cause, say for what cause you would have a cook flogged.
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Addiction Appearance Cruelty Yourself
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.
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Goodness Life Pleasure Sight
The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.
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Man Virtue World
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
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
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
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
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
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

I do not hate the man, but his vices.

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