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Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.
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Honey Similar
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
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
This I ask, is it not madness to kill thyself in order to escape death?
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Death Escape Kill Madness Order
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase
If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it.
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Death Fame Hurry Myself
If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.
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Poor Rich Unfair Willing Yourself
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
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Elegant Feeling Force Imagination Ourselves
When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
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Attendant Crowd Elegant Loud Praise Yourself
He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.
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Hide One Liner Sorrow True
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
She grieves sincerely who grieves unseen.
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Grief Herself Sincere Unknown
Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Enough Fortune Unfair

Laugh, if thou art wise.

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