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Be merry if you are wise.

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A novice always behaves with propriety.
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Beginning Behavior Novice
There is nothing more contemptible than a bald man who pretends to have hair.
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Hairs Man Myself Pretend
There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
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God Live Religious
Spare the person but lash the vice.
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One Liner Person Vice
I have not hated the man, but his faults.
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Hate Man Mistake
Such are thou and I: but what I am thou canst not be; what thou art any one of the multitude may be.
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Art Myself Yourself
Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
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
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
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Some things are good, some middling, more bad.
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Bad Goodness
There is no glory in outstripping donkeys.
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Animal Glory
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
Our days pass by, and are scored against us.
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Day Ourselves Pass Score
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
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Ant Death Life Precious Shade Value
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

Be merry if you are wise.

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